Assisted Living
Richard Hanus

Scarcely royal they reside
In stinking raunchy underbellies
Awaiting garbled sequels.

Haggard ovaries
Collapsing cocks
Oozy sphincters praying
For gourmet afterlife
However tenuous and prudent
Become the final straw.

Our elderly--
Once braggart philistines--
Lie creased,
Fraught with algorithms
Of their own demise.