Old People Understand One Another Poem by Dorsey Baker

To know the suffering
Old people experience you have to be

Old and suffering yourself
Old people speak
Talking to one another
In a slightly feeble voice

Old people have developed
For themselves
A unique language
And verbal style
Totally their own
And a very mysterious
Way of sign language
When old people enter a room
Full of nothing but old people
They use the old people language
And the old people
Tone of voice
Because old people
They understand one another!