cloudy day

[mindbum]

cloudy day

woke up too late
for coffee

grey haze heavies
the rumble
& slant

of angles
without arches

air grey
heavier than paint
grey or iron day

the grey descent
into lament

cloudy day
heavy grey

[stilltrucking]

a sunny day here
with a cloudy mind
woke up early
before dawn two hours

I think I will close the window blinds
pretend it is a cloudy day


sorry for the ramble
I enjoyed reading the poem

[mindbum]

thankee sire.

this ws lefty poem one. tendonitis.

it might be easier on th brain to write lefty [for a non lefty]
than to type w/one hand. less messy but more frustrating.
probbly faster typing.

[stilltrucking]

my reply written after long sleepless night
bed after dawn
bleary eyed morning in the after noon

cloudy days here
can be so sweet
but drive one to despair
when the rain never starts

it turned out to be a beautiful rainy day that day
thanks for the poem
pardon wordy responce
at my age any excuse to type

feels good to move my fingers
every once in a while over the past 27 years I have had months of numb pains in my arm, neck, back,
saw a doctor
big old texan with hands and fingers like Paul Bunyon
He told me I had a slipped disk in my neck High up , he said he could fix me up for a couple of thousands dollars. But there would be a fifty percent chance I would never walk again,

Aspirin been a blessing for me
made from the bark of a tree I think.

typing can be a challenge for me some days

thanks for writing

[joel]

i always tend to enjoy your writing, MB-- so thanks up front.

as for me, i'm too young & too infrequent a typer/writer to experience the physical numbness and pains...but i've harbored a long fascination for folks who master movement apart from their dominant and easy modes of locomotion. for a while in college i took up typing with my big toes (no joke) because i wanted a heads-up on skills should i ever loose my fingers/hands/arms. since i type with a calligraphy of search-and-peck as it is, the toe-typing wasn't particularly different....

[mindbum]

yr welcome. i hope i can write a whole lot more soon.

this complaint came from overworking the right hand via linoleum block cut & multiple prints. sometimes i forget myself and eschew the roller & burnish with my hands. poor choix.

also there ws a lot o jew's harp playing. & other activities attendant with making a chapbook.

the frustration is worse'n the pain. i'm still a week away from writing. by my guess. but less things hurt when i do them.

thinking lefthanded has been fun. different. still doing it.

i tried typing with my toes. they always hit more'n one key. using a manual typewriter requires strong hands and that strength has usually kept me from typing ailments.