The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog

Ridiculous

26 Ridiculous This is ridiculous said the literary old woman nobody gives us any respect the young in one another’s arms are talking on their iPhones the congressmen are lying through their teeth and our husbands are watching the game This is ridiculous said the tulip all those genetically altered blossoms those stupid long-lived orchids that are practically plastic and those fancy designer grasses getting more than market share This is ridiculous said the dog now they not only have to walk me they have to rush up after me with their sanitary plastic bags imposing their bourgeois values on my spontaneous creativity ...