Posture – by Jo Ward

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I mean I’m clearly not disabled,

I tell my doctor, smiling. It’s true

I haven’t washed my own hair

in nearly a year, but I am well.

I am doing really well. Well,

aside from the constant dystonic

contractions occurring inside my

cursed neck, but these are mostly

indiscernible, so easy to deal with,

until they are not, but then I can

just have a drink, or two, or ten,

to dull things down, to disappear

the appearance of disability, to look

as we all agree I am looking: well.

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