RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds); “The Visit”

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The visit (at an LTC Facility)

A Mercedes parks just off the main entrance

A sleek and well-heeled man emerges from within

Treading along feeling so fine with his charitable act

He visits once a year

 At the “welcome desk” he is advised his father is not yet Prepared

And would he kindly wait a minute

He sits in a masqueraded urine occupied air

Poor soaked creatures he muses

Crouched in drugged stupors

Like dangerous animals

But Old Pop was in much better shape

But he had once been so busy in the textile mill

Inherited by the son

Too busy to worry excessively about dear old Dad

A Nurse gestures, it is time to see him

Into Dad’s room they venture

Blankly to stare at a living vegetable

With the killing weeds a creeping

Astonished at dear Dad’s decline he laughs

Couldn’t they insert a tube or something

After all he’s shelling out 6 Grand a month

And little Ronnie wants a Corvette

Dad senses his concerned son and motions him to approach

Whispers in his ear, SELFISH BASTARD and expires

Robert K. Stephen

Published by Robert K Stephen (CSW)

Robert K Stephen writes about food ,drink, travel, film, and lifestyle issues. He also has published serialized novels "Life at Megacorp", "Virus # 26, "Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog" and "The Penniless Pensioner" Robert was the first associate member of the Wine Writers’ Circle of Canada. He also holds a Mindfulness Certification from the University of Leiden and the University of Toronto. Be it Spanish cured meat, dried fruit, BBQ, or recycled bamboo place mats, Robert endeavours to escape the mundane, which is why he has established this publication. His motto is, "Have Story, Will Write."

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