Rate My Pain

Rate your pain

On a scale of zero to 10!

How do you feel?

Compartmentalize!

Is it your head,

your stomach?

What happens if I do this?

Does this make it better or worse?

Receive “amount [I] pay” statement

From insurance cops

For one night stay in hospital

Insurance Cops claim I owe over $2,000-They’ve paid over $7,000!

Rate my pain

On a scale of freaking out to refluxing acid

Thoughts and feelings

What good am I?

If I cost more than I am worth

An irony for sure

Not that I am saying

Anything I didn’t already know

I have trouble with

Compartmentalization!

Somehow -Somebody-

Has decided

I am no different from A machine:

A set of parts In total dismay

How Real is My Pain?

Is it all in my head?

Or did I fall

When I opened the door to the shed?

Spring! Spring! Spring!

Sunshine

Skies Carolina Blue

Get outside

Put on tank dress and wader boots

Mow the lawn

But by all means

“Curb your enthusiasm!”

How real is my pain?

I don’t know

I am not sure I am even alive

I am lying on the ground

Looking up at the sky

Not sure how to move-Thinking I am the only person I know

who has ever hit the ground this hard

when all she wanted to do

was feel the sunshine on her shoulders

while mowing her yard