CURSE OF THE CURE

There was poison in the air and some of it

Had got into my thumb. It was pulsating in a

Horrible kind of way and it really did

Take my breath away.



I looked at my thumb

Carefully as though it didn’t belong

To me.

It was causing me a great deal

Of pain and this alone was

Inexcusable.



So this is what I planned to do;

I ignored it hoping that such treatment

Would make it go away. It would

Get the hint- who wouldn’t?



So I waited,

Concentrating hard on ignoring the pulsating thumb

Which I no longer thought of as a part

Of me. Here was an alien

Stuck on the end of my body.

A vile thing.



And it scared me.

After some length of time

I went into the bathroom to wash my aching

Face. I was that tense.



I glanced up at the mirror and I saw one large

Pulsating thumb, it’s very breath

An anguish

That would not let up.