IPOW/Edited 22.11.09

IPOW

IPOW

Penny Simpson’s notes, May 12, 2010

[Author's note - Many thanks to M. J. and P. J. A. Croft for extensively correcting my Latin. I also apologize to the ghost of Karl Edward Wagner for nicking his idea. He will know

The noughties. The nought-ies. So much is gone. The dog is dead. The house is at its most skeletal form.

This is a poem about depression. The central character is a fiction - most of her experiences and emotions are all my own. Fortunately my own saving voice has always spoken up before I left my bed.