brother can you spare a pill

when my

father turned 90, he called

me

and asked me if i could

order him

some Viagra

on my cell phone.

apparently he thought

cells phones

were also pill dispensers.

i told him

no.

no way. i'm not going to be

the one to kill

you.

you'd be taking those pills

like Fred Flintstone

vitamins waiting

for the sun

to rise.

but, he said. i've been dating

this new

babe i met at bingo.

and i don't want to start something

with her

that i can't finish.

is she in a wheelchair?

i ask him,

no, no, she's quite mobile,

and has

a walker.

call your doctor, i told him.

and maybe

a lawyer.