Monday, January 16, 2012

Blue Cross Junction

Blue Cross Junction
an ache in my arm, 
harder to get out of the car, or in
arthritis in my wrist, 
haven’t played a sport in years,
aware of ice
I walk slowly toward the entrance
of the drug store 
a man, my senior by a decade
wears floods with white socks, 
he has thin white hair
I thought 
shit that’s me in ten years 
we each walked
to the prescription counter
by separate aisles
I got there first.

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