Bad Back

Poem

Caro Kocel
Innards
1 min readJun 21, 2020

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Photo by the author

Gardening, an accidental slip, poor posture or too many hours at the computer; the reasons for a bad back are many. Reminded we’re not invincible, it’s hard to be 100% human on bad back days. Why not consider a standing-upside-down desk to vary your work posture during those many on-screen hours?

Bad back, bad back
every move — pain’s worse than a hefty smack

Can’t lean forwards
only bad back backwards
Can’t stand up from sitting down,
bad back sits me right
bad back down

Can’t sit down
only bad back upwards
not bad back sideways
or anyways
for bad backs
affect all ways
on bad
back
days

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Caro Kocel
Innards

Nature-loving life-learning hula-hooping sunshine fish: UK, France, Japan, Micronesia.