Nursing Home Medical Station
Driftwood on a woody beach.
Many of their joints seem extra large
But its the withering of their formerly muscular parts
That sets off their nodules as large.
Barking seals on a forgotten beach.
Some stammer or repeat nonsense
With personal earnestness that has lost its context
Among the disregarded and forgotten.
Beached whales on an asphyxiating beach.
They all appear out of their element
In a world they once mastered that moves way too fast
Except in their memories.
Wooden faced monkeys on a rainforest beach,
One to a lounge-chair raft,
Sit in the fluorescent glow they can only dimly perceive
Waiting for a car or relative that comes too rarely.
Converse babies on a neap-tide beach,
Their worlds shrinking in consideration
Of the universe incessantly spinning in upon itself
With ever shorter radii on deeper centers.
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