one of them

you don't mind so much
limping after another
injury from playing a sport
you should one day quit,
but you do mind
the others that are limping
beside you. much
older people leaning
on canes and crutches,
grabbing the motorized
carts as they negotiate
the grocery lanes. am i
one of them, already,
you think, cringing,
as you lift a box
of wheat thins into
your basket already
full of grapes
and figs, soft cheese.