WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

chronic fatigue immune deficiency syndrome

May 12, 2005

CFIDS/ME & Fibromyalgia Awareness Day

Today is International CFIDS/ME & Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. I posted about this last year, and dutifully do so again. I am unhappily aware of these conditions every day, but most people aren’t — until they or someone they love falls down with it. Last night, Keith Olbermann made a little joke, not quoted here, but… Continue reading

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awareness day, CFIDS, chronic fatigue immune deficiency syndrome, chronic illness, fibromyalgia, FMS, ME, Myalgic encephalomyelitis

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is thinking, and I prefer to do my own. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

chronic fatigue immune deficiency syndrome

CFIDS/ME & Fibromyalgia Awareness Day