Is This What Old Men Do? for: Edward Felter

Shuffle from the living room

to the kitchen…get the drink, 

the piece of pie, Pepto Bismal,

then back to the chair, the T.V., 

the computer, the novel, the 

sound of the wind.

Is this what old men do?

Do old men still dream

as they stare out the window?

Does anyone ask them?

Does anyone see them

in bare room second floor

Portland?  In sweltering

trailer  T.V. always on?

Do they even have their 

memories?

My grandpa used to take

my brother and I to the park

and swing us on the swings..

When he was tired of pushing 

us, which wasn’t long, he’d say:

“Let the old cat die down…

let the old cat die down.”