Nasty And Brutish For Being Too Long

Care homes are actually funeral homes
for the infirm, places where they go to die
very slowly and from the inside out.
Whilst all the while they appear to live
-and they are cared for at vast expense.
Had the residents sufficient sense of agency,
strength of will, were their determination intact
because they were on fewer medicines,
they would have cheaper and better fun
as residents in a good hotel room
that they would make individual.
They would find their sense of privilege
in the variety and choice of room service.
But the privilege and choice now goes
to the accountants of the multi-national
drug companies instead.
Their reward comes from profits on the licenses
of the drugs they sell to nursing home owners.
Drugs that extend the natural physical life
of the residents whilst through quiet neglect
the owners of the home choke the residents spirits.