Measles make you bumpy
And mumps'll make you lumpy
And chicken pox'll make you jump and twitch
A common cold'll fool ya
And whooping cough'll cool ya
But poison ivy, Lord'll make you itch!
You're gonna need an ocean of calamine lotion
You'll be scratchin' like a hound
The minute you start to mess around (Poison Ivy/Jerry Leiber)
I was weeding, yep, spending my sunny and humid days in our backyard, weeding, mulching, planting, and doing my Mother Nature, activities. I had my earbuds placed snuggly in my ears, was playing my song list from 1967 to 1972, covering my graduation and college years, and I was safe and sound in my BACK IN THE DAY MUSIC, remembering the good, acknowledging the bad, and permitting myself to let all of that just remain as history. I was a counselor damn it; I earned my One Match Fire Badge; I took my campers to the Nature Craft Specialist at least three times a week. I learned about building a campsite, placing food in one place, and sleeping bags in another place, and ask me about kindling tinder, etc., etc.! And I swear I knew how to identify POISON IVY…I had been weeding in MY backyard, and what the fuck, somehow, POISON IVY, did not look like Emma Farm, Harmony PA, POISON IVY, and lo and behold, I became covered in it. So, today, after itching and scratching, destroying my skin, trying Witch Hazel/Rubbing Alcohol, Cortisone, I went to the Provincetown Clinic.
Let us be real AMERICA. MEDICAL CARE should never be a big business, a corporate delight, a privileged piece of the pie, for some to enjoy and others left to starve. Let us be real AMERICA. MEDICAL CARE, for all, is a human right, not a particular perk for the have’s in which, the have not’s having to prioritize food, shelter, thriving! I am lucky enough to have affordable HEALTH INSURANCE. I was in a clinic where not everyone had affordable insurance, or for that matter any insurance. Men and women had to take time off from work, complaining to one another, they were losing wages, and then after fewer wages, they still had to pay for the care they received this day. And as I listened and watched, I wondered, why is HEALTH CARE FOR ALL CALLED SOCIALISM. I mean we are all human, so why don’t the rest of us, the people who actually are Pro-Life, just call HEALTH CARE FOR ALL HUMANISM CARE!
