Type 1 Diabetes
(2014)
My pump Constant companion Of my disease My sensor Resembles a feeding
Itchy It has to come off Nerves Makes me pick His look
The news hit me Like a punch in the gut I threw up two times From the pain Knowing that I
The E’s squeak by The I’s are too excited The U’s come after Q But the A’s and the O’s They flow
I find richness In the mixture In what others disdain Young people lost Between two cultures
Does the world need Another book? Another poem? I add one more to the pile To be left alone
If food is poetry The flavors The smells Singing in harmony Is poetry food?
How do you describe A man so dramatic? You can recognize him From afar with his hat Always the gentleman
Clinical smells Polite strangers The only thing worse Than being here Is to not be able
The ugliest shade Of green We envy The car The job
A noisy restaurant Listen Focus Beyond the dishes The music
Bags full of diapers Cars waiting in line Smell coming from the load Ashamed it was mine He noticed my insulin pump
I am a consumer Female Twenties I buy Cheap clothes and lattes
Is there anyone worse than a denti… A dental surgeon I think as I sit alone Battling my nerves As I listen to the patient next d…
Itus and Itis Crashed my party I didn’t invite them! I whisper to my sister They make my skin crawl