Carney’s Tightrope Act in Québec
Senectus nos privat omnibus voluptatibus?
— No shit, Sherlock!
But senectus, all the while
depriving us of all voluptatibus, also offers
us up a kind of sweet distance between
the source of noise and ones own ears,
A buffer between the outside and oneself.
To play upon one image, that of an old man
Senectus by name , who slowly comes to recognize
that he is emaciated, IS emaciatING,
if not on weekly or monthly basis, nonetheless
inevitably by whatever measure of time you chose …
Think instead of it or him (the actual gender of senectus,
but I for one think that if it’s a he or a she
that we’re limited to, better would be a she)
as a sort of condiment used accessorily,
This in the series of eggs, gossamer so sheer,