Is this the end of things
Beat up and battered
Communal dottage
Talking past each other
Trying without hope
To maintain yesterday

(The lady in pink
Goes about Her business)

Sad twisted flowers
Hollow remembrances
Of what we were

(Quiet, efficient
Coldly compassionate)

Lunch is over
Time for a nap
Waiting for BINGO
To bring meaning
To our lives