You are outside sucking on a can
Passed out in the living room
The nurse, the housekeeper
Martha Stewart is speaking
The kitchen floor is vinyl and it's soaking wet
So is the bedroom of the mother
With that of red oak, warm and sour
Lunch, three doughnuts and some chocolate milk
Reading a newspaper, that is over five days old
Roll between her surgical stockings
She has a problem, she is very old
Three hundred and fifty pounds of machinery
The smell of old bland cooking wafting and blending
With her bladder
The doctor and the son, older than my father