Alternative Medicine
Compression in
Your spine's a bane:
All down one pin,
A searing pain,
Distresses your
Sciatic groove.
You seek a cure.
The doc says: "Move!
Get off your pew.
Work out, get fit—
The worst thing you
Can do is sit" ...
But if you're too
In pain to shift,
How can you do
A bench press lift
     Or dance the twist?
You hire an ac-
upuncturist,
Who prods your back
To fool your brain
To think pain-free,
But prods in vain.
Is there Plan B
For your brain stem? ...
Try this: Recall
The apopthegm
That time heals all
And simply chill—
Reclining on
Your sofa till
Your pain has gone!
 (First published in the September 2024
  issue of Lighten Up Online)
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