THE SCALE OF MY MISFORTUNE Like everything about me the scale of my misfortune frightens those about me as my mother said though tell me Tell me something anything before I’m dead. Don’t make me plague your dreams, like last night wanting you to drive us home dad asking where you hid his flat cap
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WAVES
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RENOVATIONS
I had a vivid dream. I was invited to go to the consecration of the new Glenlea Mennonite church. The place was packed and I had just been dropped off with a ride on call later in the afternoon, if they were so kind to offer lunch. They weren’t nor was there even a church
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ANGELS ON MY SHOULDER the scale of my misfortune frightens those about me as my mother said though tell me Tell me something anything before I’m dead. Don’t make me plague your dreams, like last night wanting you to drive us home dad asking where you hid his flat cap bullying you down Main Street
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It’s four in the morning and Gus my tabby cat leaps onto the open window screen chasing Birds in the dark the screen falls out so does Gus waking me from a coarse slumber one leg on and one leg off I tumble into my wheel chair rolling far enough to reach the fallen Screen
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CAUGHT SPEEDING
SHIFT CHANGE — He was running away he said, when we pulled him over. I asked him from what, thinking maybe there had been a bar fight after closing, though he didn’t look beat up. He had been going over 120 in an 80-kilometer zone. — I wet the bed he replied. — What? —
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ENNS STOMP
Inspiration wracks cough in cough let me out! Spit in the tissue Show is over, top sheet under my desk, over foot, where we draw the line with a biro pen measures the progress of another mandolin shaped swelling hides under my linen sheet settles down dementia yanks my chin wags what a drag
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Slouching
SLOUCHING TOWARD DEMENTIA I have been diagnosed with dementia, either Lewy body or vascular, following a six hour test where I did as bad and as well on various kinds of thinking, writing, reading and comprehension tests as my previous “lived experience” foretold. Complications a bound. It’s good to find symptoms and diagnosis early, but
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Always Breathe Video
Selected Readings by Victor Enns. Order Always Breathe online.
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