Acupuncture reflection number two

It*s funny.  There is some alternative medicine I will try, and some I probably won*t.  I grew up with a strong bias against chiropractors, for example.  I will probably not try seeing a chiropractor, even though I am 57 and it*s been a long time since I was a child.  Acupuncture, on the other hand, seems different, more open to possible change.  It also occurs to me we never know when we experience the placebo effect.  Probably a good thing.

A younger person I know

Told me yesterday

In a helpful voice,

With a virtual veritable pat

On my head,

I might gain a lot

From the placebo effect

Of acupuncture.

Perhaps.

Perhaps.

Perhaps.

I still wonder

About the woman at the well

And Jesus.

He told her everything

She had ever done

Or at least

She remembered it

That way.

I am aware I remember

Two particular things:

The attention paid to everything

I said

The attention paid to everything

I did not say.