Two Poems on the Mind

What if instead of my mind

It was my leg that broke

And instead of racing thoughts

I just had a hacking cough?

Holding my breath

Shaking my head

Laughing but my eyes swollen shut

Now I see it all

My svelte body

Half moon eyes

Toothless smile

Through the perilous night

Proved that I was still here

Now I’m like sequins in the sky

Laughter bursts out of my core

My belly aches

And it jiggles!

What if instead of saying “I’m fine”

My skin turned, blue, then purple, then green

A walking mood ring exhibit

Would you then understand

What I went through?

There’s a certain greyness

That aches into the spine

It twists and chokes

The bodies lifeline

And then there’s a miracle

Took a few days of vertigo

But after I felt brand spanking new

I got brave

to take the cast off my brain

Now and then I get a brain zap

I laggggggg

buzzing in and out

as I stumble and harden into that marble slab with an eight-pack

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