oxygen is rare these days
my breathing sometimes fails
to speak
or not to speak
there is no answer
except I know I should
speak from the stomach
not with your shoulder
I don’t speak with neither
I only speak with my throat
it doesn’t like it
my stomach doesn’t like it either
not to mention the shoulders
my entire body —

this is day two
after the third performance
and I was sick in all of them
I’m even sicker today
left eye
throat
lungs
right side of my whole body
my skin is overly sensitive
and I feel like flying low
from one doc to the next
doing all that to show
another performance
in two days time.

        © Dominik Alexander / 2024