Yesterday I felt okay, today I’m feeling rather frail.

Went out on the lash last night and stayed up very late

watching The Singing Detective by Dennis Potter,

a televisual feast, but now I’m suffering for his art.

But my psoriatic arthropody is not a patch on his.

Health is a chimaera, so it doesn’t pay to tweak its tail.

Now I’m drinking ginger wine and wondering

whether to sing for supper or accept my liquid fate.