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Altered states.  Let this be a lesson.  When people start asking questions with obvious answers... perhaps there*s a reason they*re asking.  I think of all the bio-psycho-social forms I*ve filled out which show a person oriented to time/date/place.  Seizure aside, a knock on the head can cause one to think someone else has forgotten who the President is...

My supervisor looks at me and asks

How are you?

How odd, I think.

 I*m fine

I say

Just before I lose all awareness,

Wake up on a gurney

in the Emergency Room,

With a doctor who asks

Who is the President of the United States?

I think he doesn*t know,

So I inform him.

Poor man also doesn*t know

The day of the week.

It takes me two days to figure

I got a concussion

Along with the seizure.

He was checking to see

If I was fully oriented.

I think I fooled him.

I*m not sure I have ever been

Fully oriented.

The President

The hospital

The day of the week

They are just

The tip of the iceberg.

Today I have

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