Give Up And Lie Down (Revised) Poem by Margaret Alice Second

The light above my desk gave up and died, shock probably,
caused by many documents on Strategy Against Poverty in
Africa Plan to translate, I was forced to take down the sun
screens against the window, protection for my eyes being
light-sensitive, to alleviate my struggle to read

The light was replaced overnight - now the window has to
be closed as I've lost the Prestik; today I'm ‘life-sensitive'
and my eyes hurt, yet with no Prestik I cannot put up my
sunscreens so I'm factually blind, where is a water
crisis or burst pipe when needed - just for today?

Best to buy what I need and put up the sun-screens, life is
difficult enough without adding more discomfort - the
headache is ready to kick in and my stomach threatens
with hunger pains, the great, sugar-low hunger caused
by allergy, the fever - feeling the heat - is already here

I might as well give up and lie down…

12 March 2013