Tonight's Poet Corner: A Pair Of

A Pair Of
by Belinda Roddie

Irish cream
to cool a swollen pair of
adenoids - a cloth
to cool a swollen pair of
brain lobes,

pulsing back and forth
like pong on a jaded
game console, which knobs are
barely working after
twenty years of loneliness.

Painkillers
to serve as tiny red
cherries on the sundae that
marks a symptom-free weekend
until the

next time panic rolls around
and I start worrying that
the same thing
will happen
again.

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