Tuesday, 20 March 2018

Different Days



They’re different days now, they are ones beginning 
with my upper arm cuffed and then attached to that 
automatically activated blood pressure monitor - all 
part o’ my Doctor’s expansive idea t’ gather ‘better’ 
data, and guess who does it: oh yeah, its driven me 
to perfect th’ process; we are into six daily readings 
for a week leading up to th’ next appointment when 
he won’t need explain - you’ve high blood pressure 

I can agree with the evidence - when it’s expressed 
six times daily there’s no running away - altho I can 
see what he means by ‘fluctuations’; when taking 2 
or more successive readings we’ve never managed 
yet produce ‘comparably ranged data’ - suggesting
no stable basis yet for interpreting onset of change 

But it is the beginning of confidence and where our 
thoughts align will be the road t’ better reason; and 
once we are travelling comfortably th’ Season t’ be 
Jolly will surely reengineer itself - and then, as such, 
a precocious malignancy of mal-alignment crushed 
and meticulously persuaded to - just - disappear… 
© 3 March 2018, I. D. Carswell

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