Inspired by Bass’s limericks this morning I thought I’d write a poem. It’s called The Fox . Enjoy (or laugh out loud 😂). Either way I hope you’ll be entertained!
I saw a fox yesterday
Right outside of my house.
Well, half a fox: emaciated and limping. Neither bright nor bushy tailed. He glanced at me momentarily before sloping off into the churchyard to meet death quietly, as had countless souls of the parish.
‘Poor thing’. I consider offering a bowl of milk, but then recognise that this creature is beyond repair, and recall, what the bastard did to my children’s rabbit.
I try to hate him, but his sad and despairing expression lays siege to my eyes and heart. (Both - which I freely admit - have become accustomed and dismissive of the suffering of people in far off lands)
I too am diseased and am dying, slowly. Mr Fox can sense this. We’re bonding
Get a grip man: he’s classed as ‘vermin’ and his species’ empathy’ will be discounted when in a day or so, his siblings - evidently lacking his spiritual insights - pull diseased meat off his corpse!
But foxy and I are in the power of something irreversible and unyielding. Neither my education nor his notorious slyness seem to count for much now.
I slope off into the house with bread, milk, pomegranate seeds and a GP’s prescription. He limps off, ignorant that he’s meant to be sly..
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Thanks Bolt. I have no idea really about poetry. I couldn’t identify what makes a poem good or bad (I’m thinking if the ‘greats’ here like Byron or Shelley), but it was fun to have a go!
🙏🏽 Thanks Zella. How’s hubby? I’m waiting for DBS at Bristol but have a really nasty feeling that I’m in a really long queue that will take years to get to me. The hysteria over Covid has damaged aspects of society that I feel weren’t considered in the longer term 🤔😵💫.
Doing ok thanks. Both doing gardening jobs at the moment surprising ourselves at what we re capable of doing! Only problem is trying to move in the morning after a day in the Garden 😂!
I wish you all the best with your DBS journey. You re definitely right about post Covid era. The waiting time for anything is unbelievable, as we ve witnessed recently.
ChatGPT is much better than Alexa, it is is an artificial intelligence "chatbot" (a computer program designed to simulate conversation with humans). You can give it all sorts of instructions such as to write emails and letters (or poems!). The main thing is to instruct it properly. You could for instance give it the following instructions: "Acting as a Parkinson's patient who has been desperately waiting for a deep brain surgery operation for more than x months, write a short email (or a detailed letter) to my doctor highlighting the severe impact it has on my symptoms."
Given that I have quite a bit of rigidity in my fingers and hands, and typing can be tedious, ChatGPT has definitely helped me on many occasions. It is also good for non-native English speakers.
if you pore through the health unlocked archives, since we have so much spare time these days, you will find a post from over a decade ago with hilarious limericks!
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