PARKINSON’S

Off Time

On some days my prescription
is missed [on purpose to tease

this condition] Not very clever!
But you don’t know how good
…/

Roundings

I am dreading how this
bout will [now] play out
as my stability stiffens –
as notions & conscious
steps re-hire …/

Walk Under

I do not think enough
[but what do I know?]
Do not urge to things
Time is an urn set to
boil / I have elevated
my unaware body up
& down to my stomp …/

DBS

He was always just holding on
well before his loosening was
wired by composed workers –
He was fitted out in the smoke
…/

Ich mach’ Feierabend

Me: I am calling it a day
Not a thing to offer out
loud – others will argue
against my final remark
with their ignorant talk
…/

These Alarms

A howling car alarm – It isn’t mine
They will pound on house doors –

‘Oose that fucker disturbin’
our fuckin’ peace
…/

Reading Lights

I have slipped into being
one who staves day wear
& who’ll settle to waking
up with Bacalov & books
in his sitting chair below
his reading light – within
reach is his worn remote
…/

My blood rubs

‘My blood rubs’
partly explains
my old disease

Hourly beaten
without seeing
my aggressor
…/

A DX

It is as if
every clock
is set to
other zones… /