Unintended Suicide

[LorettaYoung]

Such a Mean Old Man

He died in his house at 112 years old
because he would not turn on the air conditioner.
He was on a fixed income and had to decide between
the overpriced medicine the doctor told him
he must take to stay alive and his electric bill
which was nearly a third of his income.
Unfortunately he did not have
an anti-roasting pill.
Some say he was a mean old man,
especially after his wife died.
He couldn’t afford his anti-depression medicine
because Medicare quit covering it.
People said, being so mean
he should have died at a reasonable age,
in lieu of that he should have
turned on the air conditioner;
at least he would have had
a taste of coolness before he died.
Most of the good people who lived around him
figured where he was going
he would never be cool again.


–Erthona


©2014

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Hi Erthona; there are innumerable offenses increasingly, while uncle sam paints his smiling mask of democracy, of lofty intentions, millions are suffering their demons, and the rich getting richer. Personally, I wouldn't want to be around at 112. Loretta