{"id":27548,"date":"2016-08-14T05:14:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T09:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=27548"},"modified":"2016-08-14T05:14:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T09:14:58","slug":"tinnitus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/tinnitus\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinnitus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tinnitus<\/p>\n

Frannie Z<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Imagine that the wind<\/p>\n

instead of passing around and over<\/p>\n

decided to settle in your ear<\/p>\n

and kicked up a storm.<\/p>\n

Hailstones, ice pellets, slush<\/p>\n

would all descend<\/p>\n

into your ear canal.<\/p>\n

Not in actual round cold<\/p>\n

but in a vapor of hisses,<\/p>\n

and sputter the night away,<\/p>\n

not in dance<\/p>\n

but in moans and static.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You might ask it nicely<\/p>\n

to go play somewhere else.<\/p>\n

But the spirit of noise nuisance<\/p>\n

has no such plans.<\/p>\n

Whistling and whooshing,<\/p>\n

it turns into the B-52\u2019s,<\/p>\n

but without words or tune.<\/p>\n

Sometimes it clamors,<\/p>\n

sometimes it screams,<\/p>\n

sometimes it yodels.<\/p>\n

Its repertoire is endless.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The bad part is<\/p>\n

that there is no cure.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The good part is<\/p>\n

that there is no cure.<\/p>\n

But if you stun it with music,<\/p>\n

it may retreat,<\/p>\n

at least for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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