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bone spur

here is a foot with a genuine bone spur.

the owner of the foot has lived with the spur

for more than fifty years, managing

to play tennis, football, the other football, capture the flag, and king of the mountain;

managing to finish three marathons, six half-marathons, and dozens of 10K footraces;

managing to climb piestewa peak’s summit trail at least ten times and its circumferential trail at least four times; managed to climb atop camelback mountain at least three times; has taken the peralta trailhead to a good view of the weaver’s needle in the superstition mountains at least twice, once carrying a toddler on his back;

has managed the bone-spur pain and sensitivity mostly without medication;

has managed not to talk about it at any length till now, when its relevance trends every now and then.

the owner of this bone-spurred foot

avers that a bone spur need not be an impediment for ANY sort of activity

though that activity may be accompanied by the occasional yelp.

this has been a public service announcement

and an excuse to brag.

please Vote.

Here’s an example of pen & ink, with the acrostic embellished with color permanent-ink Faber-Castell pens. Done back in Aught-Eight, when I was writing single-acrostic sonnets like crazy. The umbilicus, nasturtium, opossum and encyclical illustrate the first four lines.

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Understandable

Umbilicuses pave the stem cell highway
Nasturtiums have ornamental blossums
Deliciousness sometimes requires opossums
Encyclicals so seldom see things my way.
Rich as a soil may be, if dry, it’s barren.
Soft kisses thrill–OR make the Ticklish jump.
The misbehaving hair may snarl & clump
Albeit seeming fair as Rose of Sharon.
Near Death, Experience is tartly flavored
Deliverance to Death’s Door bad-outrageous
Afflicted oldsters call for Priest or Magus:
Beneficence to help a soul be Favored–
Lo and Be Told: I’ll be a deathbed Coward–
Expect some yelping with this–UNempowered.