I received an email Saturday…that really made my day! The Butler County Community College literary magazine accepted one of my poems for publication this year! They published a prose piece that I submitted last year also. I am very grateful to them for the opportunity! It also helps to soften the blow of my rapidly growing pile of rejections from other publishers! The piece that they accepted is one that I wrote after pondering the plight of the elderly in rest homes. It is a sad thing to visit someone in one of those places…and as I thought about it…I imagined what it would be like if the ‘inmates took over the asylum’ (so to speak). I know…my mind isn’t ‘normal’….but honestly…’normal’ is over rated!
One Hot Day
They sat in the courtyard
In the noonday sun,
The attendants had left them
alone, just for fun.
Sweating and swearing,
Four of them there,
Three sporting walkers,
One in a chair.
“Shady Pines” was a drag,
Of this be assured,
To this little group
Thoughts of mischief occurred.
The sun was so hot,
The fountain looked cool,
“We mustn’t” said Gertie,
“You know the rule!”
I’m eighty!” cried Gus,
“I’ll do what I please!”
“Me too!” added Betty,
As they made for the trees.
Walkers cast off,
Wheelchair forsaken,
The going was rough,
But haste they were makin!
Support hose, suspenders,
Granny panties and sensible shoes,
“Take it all off!” yelled Burt.
“We’ve nothing to lose!”
The rest is a legend
I know you’ve all heard,
It was the day “Shady Pines”,
Became “The Jay Bird”.
Copyright©2005 by VSchoonover. All rights reserved.
Be Well!
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