Spazzing Out

from Wake Up Gasping by Angela Brett

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To some, 'spastic' is considered a slur (to different degrees in different countries.) In my case, it's merely a literal fact about myself, a diagnosis. Much like 'gay', it's not an insult in itself, but using it as one* is insulting. Nonetheless, others may have different experiences of the word, so it's best to avoid using it to describe anyone else even in the literal sense.

* e.g. by implying that writing like a spastic is a word crime (as did "Weird Al" Yankovic), when in fact I, a person with spastic diplegia, write quite well[citation needed].

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I shiver with excitement at the coolness of the snow,
while flailing in delight at how the flakes float to and fro.
They say I shake for heating but my body seems to know
the fervor brought by white-on-white of sky and fractal tree,
and tenses itself tight on sight of all that’s cool to me.
My muscles are excited all the time, and so am I,
for music and for science and for humour and for pi[e].
They say my motor cortex might be part the reason why,
that these days they can thwart excitement through rhizotomy,
but when’s the spazzing fangirl vim and when’s it not o’ me?
In summary, my muscles have a tendency to spasm;
it seems to me those muscles can’t contain enthusiasm.
While technically I’m spastic I can say without sarcasm:
it feels like life’s fantastic and my body’s full of squee
so let your hair down (don’t relax) and come spaz out with me!

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from Wake Up Gasping, released April 8, 2021

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A poet, mathematician linguist and coder who built a robot choir to sing for her.

gelastic, adj. relating to or causing laughter

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