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In No Mood For Dogs

About midnight last night
I went down hard, crashing like a 747 into a brick building.
Dropping my paint brushes, water cup, cell phone and canvases.
Thank you puppy dog!
 I landed on my bad knee.

The one I injured seven years ago 
I weigh twenty extra pounds now
Which did not help 
Such wailing and screaming came out of me
I began howling and keening.
I woke up road kill.

The dogs were so frightened, they ran off.
My husband professed not to hear me.
I was shriek-screaming!
I called him on the cell phone.
I fell over the dog and I can’t walk! I wailed.

He came out with my walker.
I crutched my way into the house.
My knee is bigger than my head this morning.
I am icing it, and in no mood for dog.

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L Milton Hankins

Date: 9/18/2021 9:29:00 PM

Oh my goodness. I hope you are better by the time you read this. That was quite a fall...well-described, too. Jaw has ached all day long...pain pills...just going to relax if I can tomorrow. Maybe try to write, but the muses have left me to my own pains. I have a feeling they are working in the back of my mind, though.

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 9/19/2021 3:32:00 AM

Rest up! There is nothing like rest! My knee is all swelled up but I am shopping with my eldest daughter today, and nothing is going to stop me!

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 9/18/2021 12:36:00 PM

Okay I really laughed at the knee…as I have been suffering this old age bang up of travesty. Do I feel for you - oh yes! Would we both be on the floor crying or laughing. Wondering if you have a sense of humor. Of course stars like fairies circle around our heads. ;) If I’ve at least cheered you up, then I’ve done my job.

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 9/19/2021 3:33:00 AM

I figured I was dying when I realized which knee I fell on.