Rescuing Dignity

Crabby old people sometimes
do that; rear up in indignation
that they have, yet again, been
slighted and the irritatingly
thoughtless lack of respect has
raised their ire. All it takes is one
among many whose genuine
push-back first raises the collective
eyebrow of those alert to poor public
relations when the elderly succumb to
'behaving poorly' - until a sudden
transformation of mutual
events-recognition changes
the critics' view of a cranky old misfit
to someone owning the lens of
experienced injustice for which
he will no longer agree quietly
to allow his dignity to be assailed.
All hail grumpy old champions.