or unconscious on the sidewalk while a kneeling fireman checks his—what? Breath, or pulse. His mechanisms. He has some moving parts. Lungs expand heart pumps and what is more mechanical than a pump? Still there are questions about brain function. These are vital signs-- maybe in the back of the ambulance is one of those contraptions-- metal disks with wires yellow green stick them on your head it makes a ticker tape of how your brain arcs little sparks between cells of the tissue packed in your skull. That’s how you make a fist or blow a kiss. Signals travel on pathways trafficking your impulses branching to your extremities. Someone told us that but it's pure horseshit. You have no idea how you make a fist or blow a kiss it's second nature, it's just obvious. Even the foremost neurologist can’t tell us how without resorting to a shrug.
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Poems from Other Days
September 2021
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