Jennifer Lagier- A Poem

Moving Toward Death

 

Camille recognizes the slow dance

toward undignified mortality.

Despises drooping breasts,

multiplying wrinkles,

slight incontinence

when she laughs or sneezes.

 

Laments thinning hair,

proliferation of age spots.

Wonders how long

before sex drive evaporates,

mobility shrinks,

short-term memory vanishes.

 

Refuses to relinquish

sardonic personality,

caustic opinions,

hard-won independence.

 

Seeks equally disillusioned rebels

with an affinity for

weed, wine and irreverence

to join her revolution.

 

 

Jennifer Lagier is an aging child of the 60's who can be found sipping peach blinis at Nepenthe in Big Sur while in the company of unsavory reptiles.