My Medicines

off she wrote
as if a doctor's
script to which
i had to translate

making out
certain words
that i needed
to sound out

loud making
my mouth
contort in
snorts

yet when all was
said and done
the note she
wrote was

simply
poetry
for what
else would

mi Musa
write
for
me
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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