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After the endoscopy

After the endoscopy, in which, you looked into my guts and found nothing, July 2017

 

July 22

Betrayal of my

Body

 

Forged in stone

over eons (years or

months)     Eons

Left me to sit in a

Disaster

 

Sudden comes sedative in the

form of mock

 

mockingbird delighted

from one to eternity

 

The wings of Doves

Betrayal of Self

Formed in mud

I would never choose

umbrella over  Rain

 

until now

 

July 23

Stillness walks all over me.

 

I send out my Blood, coursing

and decide

 

I can Hang                    Handle it

 

I aim for Stillness  and Bubbles rise

 

can’t help themselves

 

reminders

 

Choking  on the serpent’s tail

tongue slides back in my

mouth

Bile will rise

 

I never write pleasantries

Lately

How did I become So Heavy

 

There is a list

of things I cannot tolerate

 

List

grows

longer,

 

When will I reject everything?

 

Every last lovely bit that makes this world

whole?

Will I be safe then

 

Would

will

that I build

up Fortitude

instead

 

Fucking Fortitude

 

Again, the castle Burns

like salted candy

Formed in the shape

of Cinderella

and Beset to the side with

coals

Taffy scars,

pull away

Right side out

 

The castle,                    slides

in and out     vision

In and out of

Belly-Self – slicing

its way through

 

the Right          Hand                Side

 

and sinks again

Blackwater fishes

gape and gaze up through

ice

 

That’s fortitude

 

but no Healing

to be Found

 

Inside of a coasted

Searoom, Lighting

flashes

 

you might have seen it

or missed it

or known it

 

spring-side misted ponies

lap at pools on the

sidelines

 

Undetectable weather patterns

you think

you see Answers

 

your approach is one with the times

I’m never Secure

Deep from the recesses

of a screen Life – which is

to say, Falsely certain

and surface-driven

 

Uncertainty expands, barren

Transaction

Transaction

No-fault                                    the system

 

(Portions of this work have been previously published in Survive and Thrive:  A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine.)

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