“Laughing at perfect ‘death…'”
Category: The Accident – As Of 10/10/25 Early AM Named “Clyde” (Short For Collide) Because It’s Funny And I Deserve Mirth At Its Expense
Desperation
I learned to innovate
Manifesting physically
Having this disrupted in
Eyes, spine, hands, feet
How in fu**ed hell do I
Save myself, this time?
(Bulletproof – Jamie Fine)
A beloved sibling sent this to me this eve.
Falling Apart
“I had to cancel work until next week because there’s no doubt I got reinjured.
I hate this.
I hate too much pain and lack of pleasure.
I hate limits without any workarounds.”
Absurdity
“It distresses me that when I hear how people like to go for a walk or hiking, my body now says, ‘That’s not for me!'”
Dizzy
“‘Cause I’m gettin’ better…
Yeah, that’s it…”
Validation
“I obtained the permanent permit today.
Should I cry with relief, or anguish?”
Anxiety
What could this be?
Why do I feel empty?
I give to others
And help family
I think my body hurts
As engage arm or leg
Gravity is tough going
If spine to neck flayed
To rise from bed
Needs a purpose
Towing the line is
No longer worth it
If movement is stiff
Maybe stay in place
Catch up to moment
Give self some grace
(Turning Stones – CamelPhat, Mind Against Remix)
Happy Anniversary, Athena!
“Here’s to my 2 years ago act of valiance – for which I’m still paying!
Woo-Hoo!”
Thoink!
“Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that I strained a neck muscle.”
(Find A Way – Vintage Culture)
Anger
Tapping into rage to fight back the pain.
Pain
“It seems that much of my time is forced into experiencing it.”
Barriers To Success
“It infuriates me that all I can do right now is attend to very few things – and then I must decompress, without making further progress.
Yet, I can’t tell if it’s my inner drive to achieve – or the need to keep pressing hard onward in order to survive that is yelling.”
Flat-Lined
After effects from work.
Beyond Tolerances
“There comes a point near every late evening.where makeshift stamina’s grace collapses, and further movements are accompanied by quiet grunts and wheezes.”
Warrior Pose
No gentle side-curling that
Creates extra compression
But sprawled diagonal across the bed
Face-down head between two pillows
Instability
A thematic that seems to not quit as
A single parent until grown children
Followed by accident’s spinal injury
Dollops a topping of “joke’s on me.”
Placard
Angst
Overworking Adrenals
“Like bleeding out energetically without needed stop-gap filler to meet, feed, and reset their function.”
Dietary Advice
“I will be speaking soon with a specialist to see what I can supplement my diet with, though I do not expect to make major changes at this point of restabilizing.”
(Breathe – CamelPhat, Dark Matter Edit)
Countoured Strength
“It is satisfying to feel my muscle strength and form returning along lines that I’ve been re-conjuring.”
Damocles – Sleep Token Clip, Rock Im Park)
Spinal Cord Injury
“There’s been no denying, just realigning.”
Denial’s Benefits
These first two years since the accident
Have been about gaining distance away
From modes of tipping on edge of collapse
Which I would not let override endurance
Thus internal reroutings smack into walls
When continuing to push past allowances
With mainframe crashings from pressure
As keep reanimating limbs toward future
Mystery Rupture
Something unmentioned has been
A bulging vessel inner pinky finger
Several weeks ago since I noticed
Unsure how long it’s been injured
Could have happened lifting any
Edge with angled weight cutting
I’ve been ignoring it to let heal as
Occasionally acts as trigger finger
Because the pain upon touching
Was swollen and pulse-alarming
Connective tissues and associated
Don’t have tensile tenacity as prior
Apparently,
“The few things that I choose to try to do on any given day are more than I ought to be attempting.
But I used to be able to do so much more!”
Still Frozen
I guess I’ve been in denial
Piano strains my brainwaves
While guitar is neuro-untenable
I just keep thinking if I believe…
Frustration
“Because I need more help to overcome all of this.”
Small Stepping
There are exercises and nutrients that
With time and resources could benefit
But if I have just one unit for any effort
I must be careful as to where focusing
Down Time
I got hurt again yesterday early eve
Simply walking and snagging shoe
Tripped carriage flinging extremes
Tore into junctures where repairing
Flatt-End
“Cortisol haze from stress makes chest a heavy weight almost feeling like suffocating and illness in the mornimg.
It likely doesn’t help that I must drink caffeine mixtures daily in order to be able to think and function…
I refuse to take pharmaceutical medications that will leave a worsened effect while they’d claim to address my symptoms.”
Nobility
What’s the point of appointed rank
If one does not embody meaning?
Seizing The Day
They’d carry me upon a palanquin throne
But what use would I have of this display?
I’ll ride my own steed if I cannot walk paths
And cry in pain at night when’ve gone away!
(Title of multiple meanings)
Struts
“When I lift anything with noticeable weight, this hyper-compresses hip joints where flex got blown out by the car’s impact.
I’m hoping to regain flex by training with a rebounder.
I anticipate many setbacks, but hopefully will ultimately triumph.”
Progress
I’d like to think
I am getting better
Despite slow progress
Where time stretches
And barely things change
Regarding injuries
More easy to notice
Additional damage
Than to define healing
In more subtler degrees
When symptoms convey
Negative reinforcements
Perhaps to ensure attention
Wisdom Bits From Hell’s Travels
When senses return to you
Carefully roll over to a better vantage
Pick out gravel from stinging wounds
Rinse them clean if can find water
Scrabble if you can to next levels
Even if only inch by inch
Dragging your broken carcass
Laughing maniacally
After the fall
Baring your teeth aggressively
At scavengers and predators
Letting them know
They’ll go down with you
Until you can make it to higher ground
Where the grass is green
And flowers are blooming
As birds and butterflys and other creatures
Evidence proof of The Garden
And you can begin to reclaim
Your humanity
Again
—
(Stark contrast to booklet, “Chicken Soup For The Soul”)
And Then One Day,
“She could walk just fine, again…”
Lacking “Norms”
There is no consistency that
I can rely on in these injuries
Zones are identified in variations
That intermittently work or worsen
Which keep putting me back into
States of great anxietal insecurity
Because I never know what I can
Count on in performance abilities
Add onto this that in trying to heal
New injuries occur in shift-adjusting
And their effect upon limbic systrm
Is like treading minefield explosions
Periods of “maybe I’m safe” occur
Then on into new crisis responses
(Bodhi Mandala – Desert Dwellers, Drumspyder Remix)
How It Feels
It’s mainly the lockdown
And warning impingings
Telling me my body
Cannot do as much
After already having
Pushed beyond limits
I’ll still get up and try by
Calculated workarounds
Dear Alex,
There are no words
For what I’m feeling
The trust needed
To rely upon you
To allow you to
Take on weight
How could I even give or
Know what to ask of you?
Provid-Ence
Being as it has all ultimately
Been up to me to guarantee
I only struggle harder now
For even smaller advances
Which honesty creates panic
When limbs need down time
New Patterns
It’s all I can do to
Step up to the old
Must Be Said
Waiting in bed to let
Body catch up to self
(Color Of Your Soul – GRIZ)
Lag
Recovering from work efforts
Vs.
Networking for more marketing
How It Works
Brief momentum
Dissipating relies
Upon regatherimg
Strength to push
