Wrinkly

line dry only

the wrinkly old men
wear depends to bed

and sneeze into tinged-yellow
white handkerchiefs

I'd love to know what
surmises their past's surprises

as they lay in bed dreaming of
girls and the '50's

I try to remember the old men
I have never met

and not one of them told me
"I wish I were pretty"

so let them be wrinkly
because prunes taste just as good