As I began to recover from the stroke that kept me in hospital from December ’23 till March this year, I managed to write – or rather, type – a significant amount of poetry and other things, all of which helped me to focus on thoughts which were not just about the depressing and disorientating ordeal I was undergoing. However, sometimes such thoughts were unavoidable, and made their way onto my computer despite me. This is an example:

What A Stroke Can Do To You

…….thinking

is tiring

so i think

i’ll give thinking up

for a bit

at least until

i think i’ve

rested enough

from thinking

and want to

think again

then i’ll start

thinking about

what i want to

think about

so that I can start

thinking about it

but not now

thinking

is tiring

so i think

i’ll give thinking up

for a bit……..