Running on Empty - Poetic Reading
Channel: Petite Porch Performances
Date: 2023-02-09

Running on Empty - She didn’t know why. She stood up to go to the bathroom and looked around and sat back down. She stood up. / She stood up to go to the bathroom again having forgotten the first time why she stood up in the first place. / A moment passed. / Perhaps she walked a step or two or three away from her chair and looking around the white room wondered why she had gotten up and where she was going. She returned to her seat and not knowing what she was doing / sat back down. / A moment later she realized she had to go to the bathroom. / The repetition of the remembering. The pressing of a full bladder. The knowing her body’s dire needs, of noticing them / and then, / just as quickly /, of forgetting them / while trying to attend to them was… disconcerting. She wondered. / How many times had she tried to make it to the bathroom before she made it to the bathroom? Or more aptly named, the restroom. / How many times had she needed to go to the restroom before Margaret Mead could finally find relief and rest / with all the rest / in the restroom.

―Nancy Sendler, February 7, 2023

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Poet & New Media Writer, Conscientious Coincidence Collector, Constellation Dancer, Dreamer & Dandelion Lover

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Image - Night and Her Daughter Sleep by Mary L. Macomber, 1902