Hey, this is super late, isn't it? I've gone from having early posts to having late posts. Because I just got home to Homer this night, and it's weird. I haven't slept in this cabin for well over two months, am going to have to reacclimate to outhouse/hauling water. I'm a little wired and tweaked.
Write a health acrostic for your condition, hashtag, or username! (acrostic = a poem where every letter of a word serves as the first letter of a word or phrase)
Funny story--in middle school, we had just started playing lacrosse. A few weeks later in English class we did acrostics. The next day, someone who hadn't been paying attention was getting grilled. Among other things, she was demanded to define an acrostic. She said "It's a stick you play on the field with." I can never hear the word acrostic without thinking of that. But what the heck word do I choose as my acrostic word? Which condition? Or which part of my formal scroll of diagnosis?
Alien in this body, alien in this world, I said
No
Over and over, too much or too many of me, too
Rowdy, too much body; I said Alien no body,
Evanescent, ever at the point of
eXit through the liminal cell-gate to become
Illuminated, illusory, not limited by physical positioning
Acting without favor or appetite
Because sometimes I am huge hugening the world and other times
I am suffocated under the world contracting down from outside me
Perhaps one day I'll learn to quit
Opposing pole with pole; stall at
Luminous liminal cell-gate
Acting without favor or appetite, all fall stall
Ravishing evanescence.
And I'm going to leave it at that because otherwise I'll get up and do something dangerous.
