A case of Parkinson’s during the pandemic

A case of Parkinson’s during the pandemic

Lynn Tait

noun verb black out is this the silence of dopamine toilet paper stuck on a shoe waiting for your name to be called I can’t articulate this loss for words state of emergency no panic button provided brain chemicals doing their thing changes quick as a hand tremor is this what I want gambling with brain waves close to crapping out the pressure of needing more messing me up this hologram of crazy not fitting anywhere in any convoluted wasteland dopamine talk lyric phrase fail tongue fizzle-out pronunciation compress/decompress dust in my head gibberish crammed into ebony fields nothing growing today perhaps tomorrow perhaps I need a 5 o’clock glass of wine by 4 some blues to bail me out of this half open book my gray matter sound-room begs for noise-cancelling earphones care package deliveries to satisfy my hunger for touch travel asiago cheese.