Shingles Poems

shingles pink eye and hives

it is never a great day
to have pink eye or shingles or hives
Every time I get these maladies
it is an unhappy reminder that
today will not be a great day

Shingles doesn't care

There's a tv commercial with a metaphor,
that some of us may have heard before,
"shingles doesn't care".
If one rolls the virus dice rsv and covid
aren't very nice but "shingles doesn't care."
Competitive bugs that are honing in on you,
like pneumococcal pneumonia too, but
"shingles doesn't care."
In between any tv show that's on the air
these pharmaceutical commercials loudly blare,
our

Shingles and Me

Shingles is something I live with daily
Chosen for me by whom?
I have no idea.
I doubt it is my choice, as it is painful.
My skin is tender; shingles is red, raw, sore, and rough.

This disease is something I try to forget about every day.
I can push it back into the farthest corners of my brain.
If I

Shingles Chicken Pox Pandemic Too

Serpigo, roseola, German measles, flu.
Shingles, chicken pox, pandemic Corona boo hoo.
Chilling fever, chest pains, aches all the way through.
Muscle fatigue, slap cheek, and mumps poking you.
I feel pretty great today.  How about you?

Second Shingles Shot Successful

Second shingles shot successful... 
slight prick, but otherwise... positive pitch
re: without a hitch
the first innoculation approximately 
five months prior also nary glitch.

Preemptive needling measure
regarding getting fully
immunized at CVS
(Zieglerville, Pennsylvania)13:08
military time May First
2020 bruised left arm update
status report regarding
preventive measure well worth

suspenseful interlude preliminary
delay imposed wait
while pharmacist at
aforementioned Consumer Value
Store (common everyday Joe)
bided time to cogitate
proactive

Shingles

shingles
hitting someone hard
in sheer pain
needing relief and respite
gruesome reality
lacking strength
energy annihilated
sorrowful amount of pain

Unsatisfied Scratching

The scratching wakes me up
Ridiculously unsatisfying
Yet notoriously put there by shingles
Or excruciatingly painful allergen.
A scream for help

Time is in my way
Sorry I sid not sneak my Excedrin pm into hospital
Morphine is not cutting it.
Each time more insistent 
On a more potent drug

In the Hospital Soufully

Poems are coming slowfully.
For I am most woefully
And truly most woefully
In the hospital doe-fully

Itching my skin until bleeding
More potent pills I am pleading
Poems are decidedly misleading
Me out of this stupor I’ll be needing

A Run On Dandelions

Dandelions are in short supply the news station warned us.
If you have not had your immunizations it might be too late.
There is a limited supply since people started to eliminate
dandelions from their yards.

A wise group of millennials figured out that dandelion oil 
is a fast cure for some cancers, shingles, and ALS.
The doctors vaccinated the

Can They Do Hips

If plastic surgery was free
And painless
And available
And fast
What would I have done?

Can they do eyes? Mine have floaters.
Can they create teeth? Many of mine are missing.
Can they do left hips?
Mine has shingles.

Can they operate on you when you have oozing open sores?
Can I make an appointment please?
For a new hip?
It has been almost four weeks.
Surely

My Third Week of Hell

Shall I curl up my legs?
Would that be a more comfortable position?
Shall I leave them straight out? Or will they go numb?
Should I lie on my left side or my right side?
As long as I do not sit on my bottom, things are okay.
Sitting on my oozing sores, is excruciating. Painful.
Too bad all of my

Taking Back My Power Over Me

I have decided to take back my power.
To retain my position as CEO of my health.
I no longer believe in shingles.
They have no power here.

For I am not acknowledging them in any way after tonight.
I have been paying too much attention to them, letting them win.

As CEO I have now banished them in the name

Probably Worse

I know this will get better
because I cannot fathom it feeling any worse
although my eighty-eight year old mother put 
bleach on her shingles.
That was probably worse.

Do Not Be Honest In Emergency Rooms

Do not be honest in emergency rooms.
When they ask about your pain
on a scale of one to ten,
do not say "one, ten, one ten, one TEN!"
They average this to 5 and send you home.
My girlfriend the nurse taught me.
If you want any relief you have to
say your pain is at least a seven.
It was no

Shingles Has Taken Me Hostage

My pain level is an eight on a scale of one to ten.
Poor you, someone says. Someone who has no idea
That I have been running on pain levels of ten for three weeks.
An eight is terrific; great, something to strive for tomorrow.

Shingles has taken me hostage, inside my own house.
My body is her host, my

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