mornings have been odd of recent
thats unfair to morningshes been
odd
hes been waking in pain reminiscent
of four years ago when a specialist wanted to label him RA rheumatoid arthritis and
prescribe him pills that are for cancer patients with side effects that were
worse than the pain he suffered
it was only pain
pain lets ya know youre alive
a better morning this morning he
kept to his regiment
he ran a hot bath scented with
lavender oilsufficed with Epsom salts and while he laid there his cats
stopped by paid tribute he fed them
it occurred to him exactly how
he was feeling
he felt like he was stuffed
inside an illfitting suit stuffed inside his skinsleeves twistedtoo tight in
the groindressed to the wrong side a leg short and turnedthe other leg long
and knotted under his footthe neck too bigshoulders jerryrigged ballbearing stuffed between his knuckles and
toes and his skull lashed left porcupine quills to manage if he tried to look right
in two wordsthree
a sloppy iron maiden
today was better
he was excited to go to sleep
excited to see if tomorrow morning hed be worse or better off
like the difference between
business and pleasure
he was skeptical
he was darkly
optimistic
was his cup halffull or
halfempty
his was fiftyfifty
if he could shake the snakeskin
shrouding himif his body was up to it he
was all in
if it wasnt
maybe the day after or a few days or a week or a month
he was as tenacious as it was
hed come out better on the
other side
hed find the fuckin tailor and beat
him within an inch of his life
unless the tailor had a good reason
he wasnt unreasonable
if the tailor was put up to it
hed get the name
one way or another
he was as convincing as he could be
charming
let the Game continue
he liked the piecethe part he
played
0850, Monday,
25 5. 20
1613, Monday – Decoration Day, 25 5.
20
Edgar Winters Tobacco Road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vchy9ftPuB0
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