Disabled
It’s not a dirty word
It’s what I am
It’s what a billion are
It’s what you will be
if you live
long enough
It may make you
Squirm
Stare
Avert your eyes
Challenge your brain
Fail to imagine
Condescend
Pity
Idolize
Ignore
Tempt to ask
Ask
Race your…
Smile —
until you don’t care
what everyone else thinks
always smile —
it protects against pity.
Watch for the smallest
deviations in your path. …
On zombie days when Buddha sleeps
and karma seems to pause
the world lies deep in murky haze
obscuring sacred laws
On zombie days when Buddha sleeps,
the fortune-monger thrives
and peddlers sell their souls for keeps
endangering all our lives
On zombie days when Buddha sleeps
and countries fall astray
the…
“You can come
and pick her up now,”
the receptionist says
over the phone.
We take the short drive
to the vet’s —
shortened further
by my state of mind.
Lately, I can’t remember
how I get from
point A to point B.
Ever since Daddy and I left you…
Have you noticed how Covid messed up our sense of time? Somethings seem like they just happened yesterday, only for us to discover they happened a year ago while something that just happened feels like it occurred months ago.
Covid disabled
the whole world which had to change
to accommodate
by removing barriers
thought to be immutable
Disabled people
once trapped by small-minded rules
were suddenly freed
by a universe fighting
to survive complete restraint
Showing us when all
are impacted by something
there are no limits
on what might be…
It’s decades since I last laid my eyes upon his sun spun hair and deep green eyes reminiscent of the sea that took his life. Our love still haunts my heart. Sometimes I wonder if he is haunting me now.
We were part of a group of teenagers off on…
