Muscular Dystrophy By Erika Beaver (imitation)

Muscular Dystrophy By Erika Beaver

I know someone with this disease

She said: setback. Said: disability.

Anything but be specific

In the way this is specific, not a theory

Or description, but a diagnosis.

She said: bad balance, atrophy,

Inability to walk, calf deformation,

Arrhythmias, and muscle spasms.

But the name, not the ugly sound of it, She refused.

There are two words. The first means: of,

Relating to, or consisting of muscle.

The second means: the degeneration

Or deterioration of tissue.

It is a slow process, slowly taking

Over the bodies of the people it

Chooses to infect.

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For ten years I would not say the name.

I said: episode. Said: setback, incident,

exacerbation—anything but be specific

in the way this is specific, not a theory

or description, but a diagnosis.

I said: muscle, weakness, numbness, fatigue.

I said vertigo, neuritis, lesion, spasm.

Remission. Progression. Recurrence. Deficit.

 

But the name, the ugly sound of it, I refused.

There are two words. The last one means: scarring.

It means what grows hard, and cannot be repaired.

The first one means: repeating, or myriad,

consisting of many parts, increasing in number,

happening over and over, without end.