Friday, August 5, 2016

Disability

Getting my head wrapped around applying for disability is not an easy thing. I'm not really disabled, am I? I can't drive. I walk with a walker. I only had two seizures last year. Both were doozies. 

The west coast voice
Told me:
If you don’t apply for disability
There is no chance
You will get it.
This makes sense
Yet
Yet
Yet
I am not disabled.
No.
Denial comes
In so many forms.
The west coast voice
A gentle voice
An understanding voice
Whose daughter
Had a seizure on a train
In London
During a bombing.
Ah
But that’s different
No it isn’t
One seizure a year
Is not ok
Denial comes
In so many forms.
If you don’t apply
There is no chance
You will get it.

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