A Horrible Old Woman

I’ll be a millstone around the neck of hapless progeny

Jackie Olsen
Rainbow Salad
Published in
2 min readMay 11, 2024

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Photo by Nick Karvounis on Unsplash

After all, I was present
for all that goddamn yelling
(mine and theirs)

accordingly, I expect to be
a yelling old person as I make my exit
from this miserable planet

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Jackie Olsen
Rainbow Salad

Come for the insights on aging, leave with a doggie bag full of frogs and exoplanets. Now more poems about vacuuming! she/her/hers