after Cher Horowitz

As if you’d clog your drains
veins with hyperactivated
platelets instead of just
loading the dishwasher.

As if you’d slob about in
pajamas like a Neanderthal
when you know how hot
you look in heels and a
little red dress.

As if you’d give up a life
of glitz in Beverley Hills
to get stranded in the Valley
of Medical Abandonment.

KM Dunn (she/her) is a disabled bisexual writer and activist. She is long-term bedbound with severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. Her poetry and prose has been published by the Scottish Book Trust, Not Going Back to Normal, Crohn’s & Colitis UK, and is forthcoming with PhysiOdyssey.