Famous Quotes | As if being eighty-five or...

As if being eighty-five or ninety
and terrified and talked down to loudly
and pushed around in wheelchairs by the staff
all day weren’t bad enough,
for tonight’s entertainment the local Brownies
have come to sing Christmas carols.... - Mary Jo Salter
Attribution: Mary Jo Salter (b. 1954), U.S. poet. “Brownie Troop #722 Visits the Nursing Home,” lines 1-6 (1994).

Categories: Children, Christmas, Old People

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