I have bursitis in my knee. No doctor diagnosed this.
I went to Google. Typed keywords in the search box.
pain on inside of leg below the knee
It popped up. Autofill. Symptomatic crowdsourcing.
Pluralistic hypochondriac-ism.
Been popping pills, Advils, ad nauseum (looks curiously
like
A devil)
dissolving in my gut, acids eviscerating
the cinder block molecules into easily
digestible
bite-size pellets
And after twenty (thirty) minutes
the pain dulls, the blood warms, the mind slows
I must be cured.
The effects wear thin, the blood cools, the tendons re-fray
biological mish-mash like refried
beans
topped with
Cotija
cheese.
Sound the horns, lower the drawbridge
the body idyllic
susceptible to ice pack attacks
leaving the soft, squishy skin as cold as a corpse’s
severed
head.