PLEASE RATE YOUR PAIN
Please rat on your pain.
Give it up. Please gut your pain—
that uninhabitable house.
Please get your pain a pony
it may ride off. Please write off
your pain, that it may no longer
tax you. Please turn off your
pain that it may not turn you
on. Please pull up the turnip
of your pain and trim it and
slice it in half then into half-
moons and roast it then of course
eat your pain—digest it. Please
please your pain. Please dis-
appoint it. Make an appointment
with your pain then cancel it.
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That ending is perfect!
So much pain dealt with insight, empathy and a few words…
.Please
please your pain. Please dis-
appoint it.
I love how these linebreaks work.
Thanks, you all!
Lovely. So playful. It reminds me of the birth of our firstborn. My wife did natural childbirth, hypnobirthing, and the doula had to shoosh the nurses who kept coming in talking about pain on a scale of one to ten.
Scheduling a dentist appointment for my husband inspired this one!
Write off your pain that it may no longer tax you! This is both funny and also practical advice!
Ha!
Love how you land this poem:
Make an appointment
with your pain then cancel it.