So many patients waiting with their dogs
I pitied the poor Doctor, Anderson Cooper
As time passed, my pity shifted to the waiting room
An aquarium it had ~ it lacked a pooper-scooper
her heart’s leftover snowdrifts
all melted by May
~ no need for incantations
Sleepless Nights,
I have trouble at night and don't sleep very well.
The doctor gave me,
funny colored little pills.
Life gave me,
counting sheep one by one.
The bible gave me,
counting my blessings one by one.
WOW!!!
counting blessings really works.
The office is cold, sterile
smells like the previous patient
The wait isn't bad, you get used to it
The questions keep coming like a string of tennis balls
You hope it will lead to answers
to explain your changing body
which silently moans
The answers come as quickly as the questions
The shoulders relax
The body is silent, barely a whimper
The mind is satisfied and the heart feels lighter
Thank you, Doctor
The gown and the sheet are bunched up
To prepare for the next patient
Who will endure the questions once more
Hope they too get the answers they need.
My doctor likes to see the Earth
I get a nosebleed, she’s wading the surf
Maybe off Thailand, maybe Brazil
Who’s gonna save me when I get ill?
Yeah, there’s satellites, I can always text
But she’s out of town at the smallest pretext
Running a marathon, maybe in Rome
Everywhere is her home away from home
Maybe its that she sees all the frailties of man
Maybe that galvanizes her to move while she can.
I shouldn't grudge it, but I've just broken my toe
Kicking a wall when she mentioned "Idaho".
So I’ll drive like a saint, not drag race the streets
Not eat the wrong things, not trip on my feet
Not mouth off to strangers, not poke at a bear
Not flirt with disaster or agree to a dare.
I'll use Gemini or Grok or Chat G P T
Then I'll order from an offshore pharmacy
That might finish me off and I'll complain no more
Hope she feels sorry before heading to the Jersey shore.
(note: she really is a good doctor, I'm just having fun here)
Inner self craves quality time.
Protect your golden opportunities at all cost.
Be gentle and pace yourself.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
A freeman’s worship is akin to a one-night stand courtship
(We become a doulos to be free this is an irony of Christianity)
Christians are accused of an emotional Christianity
But Dr. Russell hates God, that’s emotional insanity
Dr. Russell says there is no objective foundation for absolute values
Yet he turns and accuses Christians as if there are these values
Are you absolutely sure Dr. Russell that there is no absolute standard?
Please speak in the microphone, please use candor
Your struggle au contraire Dr. Russell
Makes you nothing more than a philosophical love muscle
P.S.
In this psychological tussle
You may be called an Aleman casco
Lalochezia is thus defined
That I can utter curse words to ease my mind
Is it stress or distressing diet
or is it dehydration?
Am I doing enough
to recreate myself each day?
Sometimes I close my eyes
and see what I do not wish to see.
Do I hear what I do not wish to hear?
Feel what I do not wish to feel?
It could have been a lack of sleep last night
or something creeping within my inner mind.
I’m told to visit my doctor, but I find him weird.
Or am I merely glancing into that mirror?
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Do you like a robot to make operation to you or Rx!?
Doctor Victor Frankenstein
sketched an impressive blueprint design,
but that was just for starts.
He'd need to get some body parts.
I looked out the window, and I saw a cloud,
as I sat at my desk, and wondered aloud,
"What will I do for this fellow named Bartley?"
My brain is all used up - well, at least partly.
My thinker was once quite good at thinking,
but lately, I notice, it's started to stinking.
I got so nervous, I started to bite
all of my fingernails, both left and right.
I bit them all down to small tiny nubs.
Now how can I write with ten little stubs?
Next, I decided to pull out all my hair,
but on top of my head, I found nothing there.
In order to write, I got an strange inkling,
I needed an electrocardial zinkling,
but zinklings, I found, cost quite a lot,
twenty five cents more than my pockets have got.
I'm sorry my thinker thunked out. I sure am.
It has all the sense of green potatoes and ham.
If only I could have written more smartly.
Well, here is my poem, Benjamin Bartley.
I’m like, “Yo!”,
and he’s like, “Woh!”,
and I’m like, “Good to meet,”
and he’s like, “Yeah, real neat,”
and I’m like, “Jungle sucks,”
and he’s like, “It’s big bucks,”
and I’m like, “It’s the pits,”
and he’s like, “What a ditz!”,
and I’m like, “Where’s the beer?”,
and he’s like, “Why you here?”,
and I’m like, “I got sent,”
and he’s like, “Excellent!”,
and I’m like, “Let’s shoot pool,”
and he’s like, “That’s way cool,”
and he’s like, “You from Alaska?”,
and I’m like, “Nah – Nebraska”,
and he’s like, “Go Huskers!”,
and I’m like, “No tuskers?”
and he’s like, “Had a cull, for food”,
and I’m like, “Radical, dude
I spent seventy dollars at the doctor’s last year
why I went is amazingly clear
she will not renew my pills unless I show
I don’t waste time on every ache or woe
An Apple a day keeps the doctor away
What if you want him for a night
To help you with weight
Kick kill candy craves
And to become his shopping wife
Eyes are spinning, my vertigo's bored
Sent to a doctor I can't afford
Slapped me twice in the head
Shook it like dice and said
"Boy, you've got loose gravel in your gourd"
Then jerked it sideways, brought me to tears
Smirked, poured quick dry cement down my ears
"Never tried this before"
"Pay your bill at the door"
"That should hold you for a couple years"
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