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A senior moment experienced by this drip

A senior moment experienced by this drip... awash with intermittent amnesia. Scant number of minutes elapsed... before I forgot whether yours truly took another dose of glycopyrrolate ingested as a palliative prescription medication addressing the issue of palmar hyperhidrosis -- excessive perspiration of palms of hands, an unpleasant physiological symptoms afflicting me more than three fourths of my threescore and six years or more specifically sixty six orbits alive to the sound of music debilitating, hobbling, loosing a torrent of water dripping (think Murchison Falls - After crossing the gorge, the water pours down falling freely 45m below creating a strong water spray on which the rainbow is formed) off the ventral side, id est anterior (front) surface of the hand an uncontrollable exudation of wet sometimes saturated issuance wren during physical contact (particularly a handshake) quite aggravating and part of the reason (without rhyme), I shied away filling out applications, a major self conscious legendary characteristic of my being at least as far back as when yours truly a poor student at Methacton High School creating a great disruption when quizes or major midterms or final examinations occurred witnessing dog awful dilemma when using pen(cil) and paper, because the royal pain in the **** sopping wet diaphoresis significantly like duh impacted satisfactory writing without the ink or graphite turning into liquid, yet never did I (an extremely shy youth) tell teacher (if young and female generated flushed and hot sensations finding me to blush), but even if the pedagogue a male never did mine tongue wag to plead if I could retake the test teasing out qualifications or knowledge (ofttimes memorized strictly for those minutes of absolute zero noise), when intense concentration attempted to bring to the fore of the mind (essentially a mission impossible even for the likes of ace actors, who made their debut when original "Mission: Impossible" television series and made for silver screen (countless decades later) "Mission: Impossible - starring macho and adroit Top Gun globetrotter,) to weed out unsavory malefactors, and Cruise’s (he of Risky Business endless fame) endearing, one-man crusade to get butts back in movie theater seats in spite of executives trying to sell the industry out to streaming the none-too-subtle subtext of 2023’s delightful “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning” also included a cameo appearance of nondescript appearance with his trademark characteristic of longish wavy hair giving him cachet as self anointed free verse writing Poet of Penn Valley, Pennsylvania playing a well known woolgatherer who recently returned from zzz land, where dreams made but rarely REMembered.

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