PARKINSON’S

Medication Due Notification

My medication-taking
app’s notification rattles
as if shattered bones
pummeled in a bag
…/

Dignity is my now tattered flag –
white by surrender’s tradition –
a message to my sworn enemies –
now limp over my fallen nation… /

From our solemn mediator’s
lined notepad – Just a cheap thing –
he referred to his underlinings
… /

Do not be sofa bound
by reelings –
by spasms
off muscle contractions

I am both fully awake and in pain at seven-forty AM
I am now learning a new word – Imprimatur
I am feeling a rough poem coming on… /

You have found
a preferred supplier
My observance
is contracted out… /

Today wary Canadian geese
avoid paddling screams
from lido blue rowing boats

finding cooler shade ashore
and rich landed pickings
among flat pressed patches …/

When this gets real bad
and we will not see that –
not for quite some time yet …/

Soft disturbances by a welcome breeze
have woken me – along with crept daylight –
as my room’s weighted curtains dance …/

Cure me –
please –
of fatigue

If of nothing else – if you can –
without causing side effects –
leaving me somewhat replete …/

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to another sung summoning
of loud bird light beyond
my night-bared sash panes …/

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