Naked in the Cafeteria

Sooner or later, I was bound to write more about how my experience with the insidious disease of diabetes has been going. I've never wanted it to define me, but once in a while the journey of it leaches out as verse. Here are a few tanka (as a rensaku) that I wrote last night that express the latest phase of what this is like, while now on a regimen of several kinds of insulin (since just last month - yes, I'm reeeally new at this stuff) that I inject myself with numerous times a day, along with taking blood samples to keep pace with my glucose. Doing all of this requires a lot of stuff that I have to keep near, and try to use consistently.

1: The first day I got my new blood testing kit (with meter/monitor, test strips, and lancets) from the hospital, I was at a little eatery where, while waiting for my order, I did my glucose testing for the first time right there in that busy little place.

2: Injecting insulin means doing so (usually) in your stomach, rotating the spot each time. It's been a challenge for me to fill the syringe and inject the fluid. I get a tremor in my left hand (I'm a lefty) that causes me to blow many attempts (which often causes bruising), therefore, having to use a fresh syringe. Isn't this fun?

3: It's crazy how, even though it's not even been a month since I started shooting insulin, I have to do it so often that I just get on with it when I have to, to get the tests & injections over with. So no trying to find total privacy for me; I just don't have the time!

4: This one expresses how, having to do all of this so often each day, can make you feel exposed and vulnerable. When I was a student, I used to have a reoccurring dream about such feelings through very vivid images of me being stark naked while in a school cafeteria FULL of students coming in to have lunch. I mean - it was brutally real!

I've added a lovely preview piece featuring a photograph taken by Kelsi Nullibicity
who was so kind and gave me permission to use the image, which was then treated to look like a delicate watercolor, and finished with a font of an Asian feel, with a rich shade of color, and defined with thin, interior bordering to finish the effect by collaborating with the talented John RetroZombie who has always been able to translate my ideas & visions to perfection, and who's efforts made the finished image possible. 

John, and Kelsi, my admiration and thanks to you both for your generosity!

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I'll probably never show him this
Is that fair to him? Part of me says he deserves to know. I can't bring myself to show him though.
This was originally inspired by jade-pandora's brilliant poem:

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created a successful and thriving twitter account, GenreHaiku, co-managed by myself and hopeburnsblue (she is always looking for pieces to feature, go contact her, go! ).
created a haiku sonnet hybrid and held a contest around the form.
participated in our very first HaikuWriMo with a Bingo in February of 2014.
What the group specializes in is minimalist poetry of fictional genres, such as scifaiku and horrorku, just for example. We take pride in this and wanted to showc
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Any HorrorKu accepted to the group through the end of the month will be featured at the beginning of November. In addition, there will be a staff feature of a piece submitted that follows the prompt below.
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07/14/14: Edits.