A Love Poem

As an aging acrobat and CrossFit enthusiast (I drank the koolaid), I've an ongoing affair with anti-inflammatories. Just check out the snazzy knee brace in this photo.

My knee brace, my friend.

Can you relate? Got any lingering high school sports injuries? Formerly broken wrists an ankles that now predict the weather? Are you getting older and remembering a younger body that didn't ache all the time? Me too!

Imma get real with you right now and reveal my tumultuous affair, my longterm on-again off-again romance: Ibuprofen. I love you. I hate you. I love to hate you.

Relationship status: It's complicated.

Dextre likes to joke, How can you tell you're an antique acrobat? You have a favorite pain killer! And we do. Vitamin I.

I felt this relationship deserved some bad poetry. If you like bad poetry, you're in luck, here it is.

Ibuprofen my old friend

I must rely on you again

Because my joints they are creaking

It’s your comfort I am seeking

To relieve all these aches & pains

But they remain

And the pain

Settles in, gets cozy

In careful steps I hobble on

Haven’t had a dose since dawn

Anti inflammatory properties

Are exactly what I need

But your side-effects scary

So be wary

Stomach ulcers, why bother?

Sweet relief it comes to me

4-6 hours I am free

Of the swollen, aching throb

That all too often comes to rob

Us of our peace and clarity

Listen to me

Advil PM

For the win

And a brief look, throwing it way back to this first person aerial silk routine and one of the many reasons I rely on NSAIDs

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