Migrating in from Facebook, because I am spending too much time there and not enough at home with the Buffistas:
A local friend just posted that she needs to compose six body-part-themed haikus for extra credit in her Human Anatomy class. She came up with the following:
Nasal passages
You are so filled with mucous
Drip, drip,sniff, sniff, snort
I added:
Faint blue blood blossoms
Red in the right ventricle
Ah, sweet oxygen!
My dear phalanges
Proximal, middle, distal
Twenty, I love you! edited to nuke a stray syllable
Uterine lining,
Why must you make me suffer
Every month or so?
Lower GI tract
Growling, gurgling, gassy, smelly, rude,
Stomach's garbage dump
And someone else chimed in:
round, fat, fleshy, flat
a gluteous maximus
all shapes suit me fine
But I really want haikus from the Buffistas. If billytea, for one, can't come up with some completely amazing and elegant haiku based on an obscure anatomical feature the rest of us have completely overlooked or never knew existed, I shall eat my hat.
Update on my Grandma. The overnight healthcare worker said she did not think we had more than a week. My mother and aunt have a meeting with hospice tomorrow (they cannot come to evaluate on a day that home healthcare is there, some medicare rule). They are pre-making arrangements at a funeral home today also. so much ugh.
Oh, msbelle. I'm so sorry. I mean, glad that she is ready to let go and that she's not alone, but it is always, always sudden.
Shoes a smidge too tight
Evolution's small relic
Pain in little toe.
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I'm so sorry, msbelle. That can't be easy on any of you.
Sometimes people last with hospice for much much time longer than is estimated -- knowing that they'll be taken care of when they go relieves the stress, and lets them enjoy their last days more.
Yes, it has a name
A name for the space between
lip and nose: philtrum
Ha! I was trying to think of a philtrum one! All I had so far was:
That space, right down there;
sometimes it's covered in hair;
But I couldn't come up with a last line.
