Geriatricity

Perverse, super-low currents of piezo electricity

eke through the minefield neurons of

my wife’s near-silent mother,

and our placid diabetic tomcat,

resulting in torrents of non-sequitur memories.

Neither shows rage which is left to those of us who

want more for them, and for ourselves.

Neither resents the routine asylum

from which they can’t escape.

-Only one of them has forgotten that males urinate standing upright,

Neither acknowledges the other,

fearing perhaps, the resulting

static charge.