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Writer's pictureMartin Pickard

Just Another Brainfog Day

Updated: Mar 13

It’s just another brainfog day when all my smarts go out to play

and I slump upon the sofa while my mojo disappears

like a sad and lonely pizza in the bottom of the freezer

bleached beyond all recognition by the frost of many years.

 

I’ve been sitting here for ages with a book of empty pages 

and a poem trapped within me, like a fart inside a lift.

watching Bargain Hunt makes little sense to people of intelligence, 

my chronical indifference is blooming like a gift.

 

And it doesn’t help at all to say it’s just another brainfog day

and there are coping strategies I know can be employed

For Parkinson's dementia is a future misadventure

that I for one was hoping to avoid

 

Like a guilt-bag from McDonald’s someone tossed into a gutter 

I’m as wanted as a letter from the clinic up the road.

Like a jigsaw, that’s been muddled with the pieces of another

or a menu, that’s been written in a long-forgotten code.

 

Then my story gets confusing, as my memory starts refusing 

to recall the things that happened in the chapter before last

If I had the motivation, I could be a bit more patient, 

but the truth to tell is honestly, I really can’t be arsed.

 

And it doesn’t help at all to say it’s just another brainfog day

Just pull yourself together, make an effort, you’ll be fine

When your neurons are decaying and your brain is disobeying

Well it’s just another way of saying cognitive decline


 

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very well done very hopeful poem showing wide perspective of disease. very relatable.😀

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I was going to leave a comment but couldn’t remember if I could be arsed. 🥴

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I heard PD suffers don't commit suicide.....because they can't be arsed ! Learning to be just a human being and not a human doing is a difficult one. Love the poem, says it all.

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Thanks Keith. Interesting using different styles to explore the same topic

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