Feeler: Quarternote Chapbook Series #17 by Heather McHugh

Author:Heather McHugh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Shape Up, Says Doctor Death

Thanks to NBP, and after Blaga Dimitrova

Who’s sicker? Someone saying

Just the one thing, over and over,

Or the one who runs

From repetition, as from conscience?

The man who lost himself—is he

The most afflicted? Or the man who’s always

Seeking second selves,

The realer ones?

Can’t you recall your name?

Or do you go around

Reminding people of it? Which one

Is sicker? Come on, now,

Red-blooded health—

Let’s take a breath,

Let’s fill that chest!

What’s this

Small chime I’m hearing

Near the ticker?—bit of broken

Nerve? A spot of bad self-pity? Bloody

Wheezing in the deep? Enough of

That! It’s time to study

What the dying do:

Sobbing to laugh.

Singing to weep.

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