Pain cannot tell time

pain cannot tell time

and time does not really

quantify pain

as in, ”that hurt for years”

“it was so painful,

I couldn’t do anything

for a long time”

this is like oil and water

there is no great stare down

between pain and time

pain is tongueless

to pronounce the time

and time seems to be

a vague bystander

with no memory retention

useful for pain details

how long was your pain?

about as long as clouds in a jar

what are you asking?

if a nonsequitur

had a jump rope

how high could it jump?

what?

pain is saga

not a time slot cameo

pain is making sausage

out of timelines

pain is stampede

when time is looking for annoyance

a pain-o-meter is not a clock

pain changes the fulcrum

of time awareness

pain killed the metronome

as soon as it walk onto the scene

time is exquisitely precise unto itself

pain is reported as

“not sure about the details”

in a line up of ten suspects

pain says,

“some of all of them . . . maybe”

time, when cross-examined,

resorts to,

“the big hand was on the . . .

and the small hand was on . . .”

yo, pain . . . spit it out

pain, for all the intent

on being the messenger,

is kind of casual about the message

as in, “well it hurts . . . there”

yes, there can be due diligence

without a doubt

there should be a pain interpreter

who comes to the rescue

to speak the essential truth

of the physical situation

for the designated person

sometimes it seems

as if every pain situation

is a game of telephone

with six or more people

inside the injured party

and eventually the last one

on the inside says

what they heard said to them

and that is the answer you hear

as an outside questioner

and you go . . .

“okay what was that response?”

time, on the other hand

and I may mean,

time on the other hand

actually wrist,

has no problem reporting

the only comparable issue

with playing the same game

of telephone

over a question asked is

if some

of the time keeping parties involved

are in different time zones

to start with

otherwise minutes are the same

and hours would need

a logical adjustment

you’d think there was a class

you could take

to learn how to

specifically communicate

about the nature of pain

as well as has most everyone

figured out

how to tell

and share the knowledge of time

but not really

a trillion dollar industry

is running on mumble

and yet the cost itself

is somehow on the clock!

and pain

still

cannot tell time!