Kind promise: I will consecrate each moment.
My assistive software
(Dragon Naturally Speaking)
insists on typing piano
PNO
What is it thinking?
Parent’s Night Out?
Public Network Operator?
Property Notarization Order?
Plasma-Nitrided Oxide?
thefreedictionary.com has
many suggestions…
Once I get past
giggling over –
and wishing I agreed with –
Pecunia Non Olet
(Latin: money does not smell)
I contemplate
Planned Nonoperation (vehicle status)
as a synonym for
multiple sclerosis (secondary progressive)
My right arm is so
heavy today
and once it goes
I will be truly quadriplegic
A word the software spells with ease
but with which I have trouble
25 years ago
my cane and I
spoke to elementary school children
about MS.
Difficulty walking
was all I had to show them.
One little boy gasped with horror.
“How do you live?” he asked.
I thought it
a brilliant question then.
Here I am
finding the answers
gently
softly
piano