She Dances to the Wheeze of My Lungs

The snow that fell three weeks ago still on the ground, I can't hike in the woods or play disc golf for fear of crippling myself on ice. Gyms, no, the plague made me realize how disgustingly unsanitary gyms are, I've a bad cold now, my first since before the plague, when I went to the gym often before the plague I had bad colds all the time. We walk in the neighborhood, it's movement, not activity, nothing gets burnt off. Bottled, me, I hate it, marinating in my anger at the snow at not hiking at not discing at all the clusterfuck I collect and grid, who is this helping, I thought only me but now have my doubts. Insurance just canceled covering my eye drops, it will cost me $7200 per year to not go blind faster. There is a three-legged cat living in a box on the library's loading dock signaling she wants to adopt me, so there's that. This post is an announcement of nothing (which make it the same as all the others). Robert Wyatt is 80 years old today

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THE THREE-LEGGED DOG AT THE HEART OF OUR HOME

Linda Gregerson

She dances to the wheeze of my lungs. Were she taller,

or had she both hind legs, she would lick my aching knees.

There’s nothing like practice I firmly believe. Practice

makes the heart grow fond. When the graft heals,

you’ve apples on a cherry tree, delicious domestic freaks.

I had a splendid grandmother, I might have made her up.

She wore cotton dresses, usually blue, and glasses

with thin gold frames and plastic cushions for the nose.

The plastic was slightly pink, intended

to blend with the flesh. She never raised her voice.

Her knuckles enlarged, her goiter enlarged.

There are ways within ways. A man will go down

displaying himself in a nursing home. The mystery left,

and there’s more than when we began,

has nothing to do with reticence, or safety.