It's the details that stand out
no two people alike
sometimes their words stay with me
complicated multifaceted flashing
not gems but stars
distant from each other
burning and so complex
I could study one forever
sometimes their words stay with me
a fast heart rate
"feels like a salmon swimming upstream in my chest"
with a hand making a salmon jumping motion
ear pain
"like someone is kicking me over and over
in the ear with the metal tip of a pointed cowboy boot"
won't take statins
"because I don't want to end up a drooling idiot
in a diaper"
the young man from a group home
where the staff insists his head hurts
The CT shows a sinus mass: they are right.
anything else?
"You have not made me feel like I am twenty"
from a 91 year old
each star visits me
never before and never again
no two alike