So, I have early mild to moderate arthritis in my hips. Worse in the left. Probably. Still need x-ray confirmation. I need to take good care of my hips so I'll have them for a long long time. I'm looking for inspiration in poems (where else?) and found Lucille Clifton:
homage to my hips
these hips are big hips.
they need space to
move around in.
they don't fit into little
petty places. these hips
are free hips.
they don't like to be held back.
these hips have never been enslaved,
they go where they want to go
they do what they want to do.
these hips are mighty hips.
these hips are magic hips.
i have known them
to put a spell on a man and
spin him like a top
— Lucille Clifton
audio clip
May 03, 1983
Guggenhiem Museum
From the Academy of American Poets Audio Archive
I'm going to keep looking for poems. But I'm not allowed to sit at the computer as much any more, so I guess I'll just have to be sporadic. Or, more sporadic.
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