Poetry

Handing in the doctor’s / prescription / Scrawled commitment / chronic forever / a new medication / to add to the mix

I hope you have a cute name / Scout or Wishbone / Flanders or Doug / Rick or Trapper.

Grooming was once a ritual, each time the same.

Transient discomfort of uncertain origin Activating ancient internal reactions

I don’t get the blues, I get the greys.

My counselor asks; my reply pours out of my chest, along with a waterfall of tears, in a very cartoonish stream.

Straight for the jugular say it straight to my face

An associate directs me to Virginia Woolf’s essay. It is an act of kindness, I suppose, but the solace I seek is not there.