Lumps & Bumps

There are wrinkles, lines,
Osteo- this, osteo- that,
And then the bumps -
Perplexing lumps
From nowhere,
Showing up and growing,
Coming and not going.
Bother!
You think cancer, other
Causes and annoyances:
Worry, costs and doctors.
Signs and trends!
Oh, brother,
Will they never end -
These changes downward foul and fetid,
Sour, dour, cowardly?
Unsightly forms
Informing us
Of beauty’s loss, songs unsung,
Boss death and wretched other wrongs?

Lumps & Bumps 5.29.2016
Circling Round Aging; Birth, Death & In Between II; 5.29.2016
Arlene Corwin