abracadabra

leanne’s father has been a magician
for as long as she’s known him.
she grew up going to magic conventions
with him and her sister.
sometimes they’d assist him
(more lee’s sister than lee),
and, i don’t know, get sawed in half,
pull colorful scarves from his mouth,
fan out the cards.
maybe they just looked cute
up on stage.
for lydia’s third birthday on saturday,
we [...]

i like dirty women

but not when it comes to petscans.
when it comes to petscans, i prefer clean women.
good thing that according to the petscan,
my wife is clean.
very clean.
in fact she’s so clean, that if cleanliness
were next to godliness,
she’d be giving yahweh
a run for the money.
here’s something:
THERE IS NO ABNORMAL METABOLIC ACTIVITY SEEN ON PET IMAGES TO INDICATE [...]

not a week for the weak

tomorrow we go back
to the little room with the recliner
where we watch bad, bad movies
and wait while the radioactive sugar makes
its way through lee’s system before the scan.
we’re hoping that the sugar doesn’t exit
at the spleen offramp and have a roadside picnic lunch.
that would be bad…if you’re a spleen sympathizer.
results will be in on thursday
whether [...]

citronella

lee couldn’t sleep last night.
it was hot. but it’s been hot.
no, it was that she couldn’t stop
itching.
it’s a downer to think that summers will be her least favorite
time of year, though i understand why.
is it the mosquitos
or something else?
but the itch wasn’t on her skin,
it was her feet, in her feet,
and how could it [...]

some people get sick

i’m not one of those people
and some people get sick
of their wife.
i’m not one of those people.
and some people get sick
of taking care of their wife.
i’m not one of those people either.
leanne and i spent pretty much every single day together
for the past six months. in the chemo ward, at doctor’s appointments,
me watching [...]

wants to hear two things strangely?

1. I’ve looked at that picture in the post below a bunch of times.  In fact, when I was writing the post and inserting the picture, I sat there on the computer and just stared at it for probably a good five minutes. Leanne, with hair. And the thing is that I don’t recognize her [...]