Senior moments

Insignia posted various photos of her trips around Northern California on her blog . One of the San Francisco skyline, possibly taken from the East bay area, twanged a string somewhere. ( I have old links with N. California. I have family and very good friends and old roommates there, I studied in the UC system 40 years ago, and the state governors (Reagan then) were cutting budgets for education even then. Healthcare has become a very expensive thing for ordinary folks, and my own aging (here in India), makes me more aware of how things can be now......)


(photo by Insignia)
Upright
very
senior citizens
George and Henrietta
earlier of
the Bay area.
A bad health scare,
son's job scare
tangling
with Arnold***,
his budget cuts
for teachers.

Now,
out
for an organized
trip,
from their
assisted care
Senior Home
in Oakland.

Now a bit bent,
in Body,
down to the essentials,
hardy
and sturdy
for their age,
George turns
towards
a lost
and barely attentive
Henrietta,
smiles
and says,
"remember
that dinner
at Ghirardelli Square ?"****.

A Blank.
and
Bare.
Reply.

*** Arnold Schwarzenegger , (the old Tarzan), Governor of California
**** Ghirardelli Square : a fancy tourist place in San Francisco proper.