Now

Cold revisited?
I meet you with a warm breath.

Live Wire

HA!
I'm all about it,
Just everything!
Electric limbs,
Out it all comes,
WATCH OUT!

I've been
Radiated
Infused
ZAP!  POW!
Hair falls,
Toes tingle,
Tissues singe and scar;
Apocalyptic atrophy!
Then spring, sprang, sprung,
RELEASE!

Polka dotted pulsing,
Watch me dance,
HA!  Live Wire!
Flip up,
Fly down,
Watch me steroid wild!
Gonna be that way,
Watch out!
ZOW!

 -Julia Livingston

Understood

I've had an illness
That might come back
But it isn't here now and I am.

My X-illness and I were quite a pair;
Very intense relationship,
Violent in fact.
I could have died.

For I don't know how long
I really did not know
What was going on.
It just seemed normal to me.
When I found out,
In the moment when I understood,
I thought I would die.

Instead I live with a restraining order.
I mean, I eat and sleep with a restraining order.
Always on the look out
For a sign, a creeping up;
And off we'll go again
My Illness and I.

-Julia Livingston