Author Archives: sputterpub

The Old Crowd

Posted on February 16, 2023 by sputterpub

The problem with retirement communitiesis they resemble ghettos for the old.The residents exhibit scant diversities,and even if the food’s okay, what’s toldat table are minutia of infirmities,adventures shrunk to where the wheelchair rolled,the ambulance of no return, the eulogies,prescription lists … Continue reading →

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Flexibility

Posted on February 15, 2023 by sputterpub

Subscribing, I have recently annexeda catalog of resources to useto slow decrepitude. Without pretextI’m exercising ligaments and thewsbefore another effort, till I’m flexedby gentle pose and stretch. I don’t abusethe corpus like I did so many years.This resolution’s working, it … Continue reading →

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Voice Lessons

Posted on February 14, 2023 by sputterpub

I’ve heard there’s nothing like the human voice –no instrument can equal our full range.But power comes with room to make a choiceabout your tone of speech. Let’s not estrangethe sound of conversation from rejoiceand warm to cold belligerence. Exchangethat … Continue reading →

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Stretch

Posted on February 13, 2023 by sputterpub

Compression is the symptom as I age –a tendency in body and in mind.There’s condensation in the way I gaugesurroundings, and the spacing in my spine.I’m shrinking daily, sleeping shorter, kindof like a turtle in my skin and neck.Combating this, … Continue reading →

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Homecoming

Posted on February 12, 2023 by sputterpub

Returning after 20 years awayfrom where she started life and spent much time,the differences she notices dismay,but most the views are charming – urban grimeand old graffiti, weather off the bay,drug deals half-mistakable as crime,lights and bikes and ambience so … Continue reading →

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Big Kids on Little Seats

Posted on February 11, 2023 by sputterpub

I ride the bus with students frequently,and here’s an observation lately made.They’re college kids, who quite compliantlybehave like every rule must be obeyed.They seem to read the caution that’s displayed –Stay seated till we do not move at all –as … Continue reading →

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Shellac

Posted on February 10, 2023 by sputterpub

The mom is doting with the neonates,but once a baby’s aged to six months old,the woman opens up abrupt floodgates –impatience pouring over uncontrolled.There isn’t space then for a child’s hurt,unless the injury needs stitch or gauze.Her offspring grow accustomed … Continue reading →

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New Beginning?

Posted on February 9, 2023 by sputterpub

It’s not too late to make a new beginning,although the year commenced a month ago,and dawn is past, and I am old, I know.I have no goals for trophies – I’m for winninga little better health: a way to slowthe … Continue reading →

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Ordinary Dreams

Posted on February 8, 2023 by sputterpub

They may be the effect of stuttered sleep.Deleting cannabis could be a cause.But I am dreaming nightly, and I keepthe memory of many scenes. I pausein rise to consciousness, from nothing deep –I surface from a shallow pool. No clawsor … Continue reading →

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It’s Mostly Not

Posted on February 7, 2023 by sputterpub

It’s mostly not an age-related ill.She’s ancient but her memory’s not shot.Her hatred’s from no side-effect or pill.It’s mostly not. If you remember vigor, you forgotshe tapped it from a fountain of ill-will.She never laughed. She didn’t hug a lot. … Continue reading →

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