Z-pack

Sick,
ick,
catching up on sitcoms
I have never watched before,
Bryan Cranston as a silly dad
so different from his Breaking Bad
personna, coughing to my very core
as Z-Pack takes its time to fight
infection, no thought given to
my obligations and agendas,
world has managed to rotate,
revolve without my help.
How do the chronically diseased
stay sane, never feeling well,
no light, no peace, just pain
and bile and bitterness? At least
with me, there's hope that medication
will kick in by time the sun is high
again, that this will end.


(v) Ellen Gillette, 2013