there were old people around.
Really old people.
The kind who have translucent skin and whose hands shake.
Now that I am older
there are still old people like that around
but they are not the same ones.
Those original old people are nowhere to be found anymore.
When I was young
this current group used to notice the ancient
and think
“oh my god, you can almost see through their skin”
but then they would get impatient
and zoom around the frail
as they went about their business.
Now they don’t zoom anymore.
Now they don’t have any business anymore.
And now they usually seem pretty patient too.