(With apologies to the eminent Harvard Medical School doctors and specialists in an attempt to seriously indulge in some leg-pulling – and some leg-spraining – in view of their pronouncements, such as : « And position-sensing nerves – called proprioceptors – embe dded in muscles, tendons and joints throughout your body help you move around without stumbling or bumping into things. »)

If ever I had a country – LXXXVI – 86

(With apologies to the eminent Harvard Medical School doctors and specialists in an attempt to seriously indulge in some leg-pulling – and some leg-spraining – in view of their pronouncements, such as : « And position-sensing nerves – called proprioceptors – embedded in muscles, tendons and joints throughout your body help you move around without stumbling or bumping into things. »)

If ever I had a country, a country to which I owed nothing by way of loyalty or conscience though in my assumed rôle of Ministre d’État without Portfolio, I have served without a sense of duty to a country which runs the highest possible risk of losing its Independence where « Every 19 minutes, an older adult(s) dies from a fall-related injury. »

Where « Every 11 seconds an older person….is treated in an emergency room – Surprise O ! Surprises ! - for a fall-related injury. »

Where « if your vision is failing or (if) you have poor depth perception … allergies and head colds … that cause » you to feel dizzy

Where Secretaries of State in Irons fall head-over-heels into Jeanne d’Arc Binoche daughters-in-law while their sons fall backwards down into three-storey stairway wells, a mere occurrence in the eternal LOVE STORY

Where « Women are more likely to fall than men, but men are more likely to die from a fall than a (sic) woman » for women have « muscle power, a combination of strength and speed to maintain balance and mobility…. With Pilates to improve flexibility in the lower back and hips to boost balance in an emergency. »

Where returning leaders left off-balance on the gangway, debilitated by the tongue-lashing they let loose on the Crown Prince of Arabie for the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi

Where if you added up every 11 seconds and 19 minutes ever since the Declaration In-Dependence some time in 17 Seventy Three, you are bound to end up wondering at every sign-post  warning : « WATCH YOUR STEP ! TRIPPING HAZARD ! » who robbed every citizen of his country

Whether due to some blood-pressure « medications, inner ear problems, foot pain, weight changes and Vitamin-D deficiency... »

Me, I make certain I get my B12 Vitamin to keep at bay the ENEMY

And this, even if I never ever had no country to call my own, no ethnie, nor Creator to kiss or spit on me

© T. Wignesan, Paris – 17 july 2022 (Don’t buy BLIND MAN’S LANTERN, but, if by chance you have, ask for a refund and don’t return the copy : it’s not worth a dime.)