Poem next<\/p>\n
don\u2019t tell me what to do or how to live.<\/p>\n
I am totally and permanently disabled with bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n
The rules do not apply.<\/p>\n
I can either write no poems or cannot stop, sometimes.<\/p>\n
I can either not stay awake or not get to sleep, sometimes.<\/p>\n
Staying up all night is the worst thing I can do,<\/p>\n
Except I do it all the time,<\/p>\n
which explains a lot.<\/p>\n
Let your passions roll the dinkum genius writes, as though he knows<\/p>\n
what it is like to have to words coming faster than I can type,<\/p>\n
and each one my GENIUS brain approves as brilliant, apt, not to be missed.<\/p>\n
The waiting world would will be so lucky to read this!<\/p>\n
Choices \u2013 do I take my medication and risk falling asleep,<\/p>\n
not take my medication and risk falling off the edge of the world.<\/p>\n
Perhaps I can check my archives for a message from myself when I enlisted in\u00a0this turkey shoot. I must have had some idea of how to \u00a0proceed, unless I was in De Nile, which is not a river in the desert since it spreads its now polluted fertility along its banks\u2026.<\/p>\n
Polluted fertility. That\u2019s a good image for my brain.<\/p>\n
Welcome to my world, my friends and frienders and friendees.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t bite, scratch. Or do harm,<\/p>\n
but I might hop up on you and lick your face.<\/p>\n
Cave Canum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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