Ominous homelessness breeds’ oppressive existence

Mon, 04/24/2017 - 02:22 -- ts735b

 

still waiting for your response...........Recalcitrant mailer daemons wail like banshees 
roost upon sacred cerebral hemispheres
Fancyfeast beyond flesh jawboning, rabidly tearing satiation point
rule thy roost wreaking havoc within psyche
ominous anguish asphyxiates, chokes,
and strangles means to gasp for air
snatches of gulped oxygen barely elude death
cruel damn fate pitches thyself and spouse into the galley maw free
essential sands Father time spell rental termination
Mother  of necessity and absentee landlord
the faux promise as tenant at Ridley Town Manor Apartment
arrayed two story foursquare brick  domiciles 
within the blue-collar zip code of Crum Lynn, Pennsylvania 
held fleeting promise to avoid the harsh indignities of raw elements
circumstances took about face predicated on many stipulations
never spelled out, nor lease proffered
plus the inability of my financially strapped octogenarian father
experiencing his own financial woes
as he continues to notch chronological markers
which at four score and eight journeys mortality
impresses depleting hefty monetary costs 
requisite to remain at his plush Twin Silo Retirement Community 
nestled among aery enclaves to house uptick in elder population
which havens for those trying to enjoy their golden years
realize (asper my dad), that longevity 
quickly gobbles up accretion of savings
clamoring at emptiness, cuz my checking account on life support
and the sole income awarded from social security 
for a raft of under currents
susceptibility to anxiety, obsessive/compulsive disorder,
and schizoid personality disorder
present since birth, yet which clarity courtesy
sans Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
at middle aged affixes a legitimate psychiatric name
to the many woeful mental health gremlins feeding egregiously
diminishing coping skills without plenti full supportive resources
hens (this chicken and egg thing) suicidal ideation 
immediately doth spike thus Zarathustra
and though nary a   bloody red cent garnered 
vis a vis via tinker, tailor, soldier spy catcher of versatile wit
zilch = the current net result dabbling with said medium
which upside per literary skill allows, enables and provides
a golden opportunity to write my own nonestablishmentarian epitaph!

 

 

 

 

 

This poem is about: 
Me
My family

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