We Real Old
The Canasta Players:
Seven at Autumn's Gold
We real old. We
bell-tolled. We
dilate. We
stagflate. We
sing thin. We
shake Schwinn. We
shit-doled. You
stuff gold.
Copyright Credit: William Trowbridge, "We Real Old" from Put This On, Please. Copyright © 2014 by William Trowbridge. Reprinted by permission of Red Hen Press.
Source: Put This On, Please (Red Hen Press, 2014)