against the first light of dawn
© Rachel Green October 2025
What Defines Us?
Some children under ten are interviewed
for a TV filler on the nightly news
and asked what that think that older people do
and what shows off their age to younger views.
Topping off the list was whining on
about the 'Good Old Days' when they were young
as if the past had never been and gone
with all the boring things of which they sung.
'Gardening' and 'drinking tea' came next
with radios and TV schedule pages
and all the aches and pains in backs and legs
knitting scratchy clothes and sleeping ages.
Ninth upon the list was 'have a weather moan'
and last was doing crosswords on your own.
© Rachel Green October 2025
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