Self portrait with a kiss on my left cheek

with a smile on my cheek,
I’d smile at Aunty B’s face,
for a smile is medicine for
the old, that makes them
to dash a lot of money to
the youth. the abundant
the money they are not using.

-this is why I love Aunty B-

if at seventy, I am not taking
retirement courses but touring
Canada, making money,
writing poetry weekly and
learning from younger ones,
then I’d be a happy elder,
then I’d be a bit of Aunty B,

Tomide Abdul