Poem for Wednesday and Rainy Cabin John

 I Could Ask, But I Think They Use Tweezers
By Aziza Barnes

the shoulder is       a complicated organ     femoral                artery lymph   nodes tendons a   those joints if      a bullet goes
thru you there’s also       the clothing        oh     yeah what did you think      I mean if it’s just this        then that’s different but
if it’s       two layers of that    those are other impurities the body                          does it’s job just one
                           function to release what can’t stay he walked into the ER smiled                       “I need a doctor      thanks
         man” blood stops moving to the big                 towns the brain is a big town the heart is a big town the kidneys are
                      hot spots like Vegas built                                to handle armies on vacation the blood learns    to bend another
way like the legs of a crane                     they make bullets different           now-a-days                  in the              good-ole-days
         a bullet went in and out and                        the holes matched now a           .22             a .38      expands in the body
absorbs like a tampon               function                         pull in all life        he was ordering drive thru food             McDonalds
food not               really food maybe like          french fries maybe like            a Sprite maybe like a #2
                                           things that don’t feel like food in the mornings down                         the street from my house
           from his mama house a clog                    at the 3rd counter this guy has a gun a gun has                                       an
operation has composition is orchestral                      is an organ of some complication ephemeral
                                         the bullets are small; a shoulder is innocuous until you become a nurse the only
                                                 reason he died was speed and proximity but if it’s a couple                      layers of cloth well you
have to get that out too

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Busy Tuesday with unexpected late-night visit by neighbor trying to figure out what to do with her rescue cat, who is not getting along with her own cat. It was rainy most of the day so everyone was apparently restless indoors, even our cats who decided to wrestle on the clean laundry. We had to stop at a couple of stores, so we took a walk in Cabin John Park once the rain had stopped (some of these photos are from our last rainy visit last week). 

 

The Texas news is horrific. After Avgolemono and crusty bread for dinner, I watched Voyager's "Nemesis" with my Tuesday group -- I only remembered the Darmok-and-Jalad-type universal translator language and that the good guys were the bad guys. Then, because I was trying to get laundry folded and photos uploaded so I needed something that didn't require a lot of concentration, we watched Age of Ultron and I refuse to be judged for how much I still love it.