Tag Archives: Alzheimers/Dementia

LOST AT SEA

LOST AT SEA

Uncles, aunts, old friends and more
all sinking below the metaphor
on the way to that distant shore

The keel hauling of cancer
Walking Gehrig’s plank with ALS

Hanging from the yardarm
of emphysema’s choking rope

The lightning stroke of stroke

The sudden iceberg of heart attack

The slow arctic crush of hoary old age

Or slowly sailing, deeper and deeper
into Alzheimers’ fog bound banks

There are a thousand ways
to get back to the launching line
I’m not sure I’m ready yet
to speculate on mine

THREE STRIKES

THREE STRIKES

My sportswriter friend has Alzheimer’s now
and I wonder what happens
behind that bright brow

When we were kids, he was the guy
who knew each homer and pop fly
and every player’s RBI

Grew up to travel with the pros
what he didn’t know, why nobody knows

And now soggy brained he tromps
through sub sequitorial swamps
the mind once quick as cats
drowning among the stats