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I am a Head by Deborah Rey

Her fingers fly over the keyboard
as she screams out her anger and
frustration.

Her fingers still can fly,
the last part of her body capable
of any normal movement.

The rest slowed down,
near frozen in painful immobility.

Legs sending signals of distress
with every step, vertebrae crunching
with all moves for lack of disks.

Joints without cartilage yelling,
SOS - SOS - SOS,
even when she sleeps.

Nothing works, nothing helps give life
a bit of physical fun, going out, shopping,
walking on the beach a sweet memory.-

Nothing more.

Her mind the only part of her
still in perfect working order.

"I am a Head." She taps in overdrive.
"I speak my Soul, I am."

	Author's biography:
			Deborah Rey (1938 – ?), born in Amsterdam, worked in radio from the time she was a little girl, and later in television, publicity and the theatre, as a broadcaster, entertainer, scriptwriter, translator, editor, and actress, in the Netherlands, Canada and the USA. Today retired, she finally has the time to be a full-time writer and editor. Her work during WW II as a ‘baby-courier’ in the Dutch Underground, earned her the honourable distinction of having been a Child Resistance Fighter. Her autobiographical novel, ‘Rachel Sarai’s Vineyard’, will be published shortly. Her poems and prose are published, among others, in The Blue House, Flutter, Muscadine Lines, Subtle Tea, RovingDove, and in the 2005 and 2006 UKAuthors Anthologies. Deborah Rey is married, has one daughter, one grandson, and lives at the French Atlantic coast, with her husband, two dogs, and six cats. She is the co-founder, and Chief Editor of La Fenętre Magazine.

I am a Head by Deborah Rey