Terminal Hypochondriac
©1981 Susan Noyes Anderson
If I don’t really have
some terrible
disease
and shouldn’t really be
laying
flat on my back
then
I’m a terminal
hypochondriac
complete
with an amazingly vivid
set of
symptoms
and a world of
imagination.
I think I’d rather be
creative
than the alternative.
It’s safer.
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Tags: humor, illness, psychology
Susan Noyes Anderson
Susan Noyes Anderson is the author of At the End of Your Rope, There’s Hope, Deseret Book, ©1997; Awaken Your Spiritual Power: The Fairy Godmother Isn’t Coming!, Karisma Press, ©1999; and His Children (poetry only, photos are by Anita Schiller), Vantage Point Press, ©2003.