NaPM April 28 2014

[ChristopherSea]

Did HE MENTIon It To GrAndma?

Who? What?

The Doctor, did he tell her…

No one forgets
the day it started-
we clasped our ears tightly,
as Grandpa resounded,
his cane splintering
on stony ground,
hip following after. It was
a protracted Fall, he’s been wintering
for months. Our Titan became
a wretched mortal, who lost
his shoes more then once,
who fears his soul is adrift
as well. It seems so

impossible to believe,
as he sits in the love seat,
not in comtemplation
before the shelved books
that he shared with us all,
more like sublimation, as he slips
unconscious, boring
into earth’s mantle. He's searching
for Professor Otto Liddenbroch,
on a silly jaunt to the center of the earth
through cynical grey matter,
beyond the labyrinth of plaques
and tangles to the nucleus

of a vexed mind. Grandma’s angry
at Grandpa, the Doctor, us, whoever,
and there’s no explaining
it to her.

He’s mad
as a hatter that lost his Derby,

she says. He lost their savings
gambling, drinking, giving money away.
He frightened her at first,
but worse now, he's abandoning her.
She knows it, she sees it
on the love seat by his side,
with her arms around him.