...happening today
She watched me tilt my head and look eyedrops into each eye and shuddered, saying "I can't do that" I looked at her in disbelief! She, recovering from her 3rd fall, same wrist broken twice, bravely isolated in a re-hab facility with that dead-air & feint chemical odor. My eyes, swollen with allergies following a 2-hr hike the previous first 50 degree day (turns out to be a sinus infection). Her excitement is childlike when I tell her I'm picking her up tomorrow (today) to go to therapy at the Minnesota Vikings Ortho facility! She will see all the snow has melted (save the dirty 20' piles from dump-truck drops) and I promised her lunch (she likes a tuna-salad sandwich & lemon meringue pie!) She knows this is bonus-time...she didn't hit her head when she fell...the stark truth left unsaid, her friend just passed 3-weeks after falling, hitting her head, blood on the brain. I will bundle her in my warm outing blanket and we will ease thru traffic not talking...
Words aren't needed
4/2/19
6:13 am
Categories:
ortho, blessing,
Form: Narrative
Ignoramus in art, you'll say of me.
I've tried hard, but still
can't see
that Mona Lisa's mystic smile
known to bewitch folks
even from a mile!
Seems she parts her lips daintily
to let a hiccup out
gracefully
or a vulgar burp, hyperacidity,
or hide nicotinic teeth
artfully.
None in her mouth's coy symmetry
remotely resembles
a mystery.
Could it be dental deformity?
Y'see I took up ortho-
dentistry.
Categories:
ortho, funnymyth,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Ignoramus in art, you'll say of me.
I've tried real hard, but now I still can't see
that Mona Lisa's mythic, mystic smile,
known to bewitch folks even from a mile!
Seems to me she parts her lips daintily
to let out a half hiccup gracefully
or a vulgar burp, hyperacidity,
or hide nicotinic teeth artfully!
Nothing there in her mouth's coy symmetry
remotely resembles a mystery.
Maybe she's got dental deformity.
Y'see, I took up ortho-dentistry !
Categories:
ortho, funnymyth,
Form: Rhyme
Unschooled in art, uncouth, that's what
you'll say of me;
I've tried and tried so hard, but I
still have to see
da Vinci's Mona Lisa mythic,
mystic smile
bewitching folks allegedly even
from a mile.
It seems to me she parts her lips
quite daintily
to let a drunken hiccup out
quite gracefully
or stop a vulgar burp,
hyperacidity,
or hide those nicotine-blackened teeth
artfully.
But truth to tell, nothing in her mouth's
symmetry
remotely resembles a smile with
mystery;
perhaps, she's toothless, some dental
deformity,
believe you me, I took up
ortho-dentistry!
Categories:
ortho, funny
Form: Rhyme