Admonishment

Admonishment

Suffer, my arthritic hips, suffer! I didn’t ask to be part of this.

All my life, well most of it anyway, you carried me places,

Some of which I didn’t even care to go. Carelessly, you bore

The weight of me, and carried things far heavier than the

Practical limits of human possibility. All those oversize sofas,

The solid oak dressers, and cumbersome boxes filled with

Books and such. Oh sure, you could handle it, no sweat. I was

Always the one to admonish you for carrying things way too far.

And look where it got us, all hobbled and wobbly, can barely

Make it up and down even a small flight of stairs. Suffer, bitches,

Buckle beneath the tremors of pain! I will not take the blame for

Your self-inflicted miseries. Your macho attitude on indestructibility

Brought us here to this state of irreversible infirmity. And now

It’s a wretched strain to lift the rest of us out of this chair to

Go and take a pee. Now get up, damn the both of you! Get up

Off my lazy ass and move!

Chris Hanch 2-28-17