The importance of community

I see everything in double
the first hour or two after I wake
so I need to close one eye
and write one eye’d hymns

Doctor’s letters that never make trouble
do not hear me, after all, I only have hearing
in one ear, but that sharpens my hearing
in my good ear, opening music as important

Schizoaffective Disorder is disbanded and controlled
by a mountain of medication, including clinical anxiety,
depression, and PTSD, colorful pills that pull me close
to my soul’s geography and after 28 years of this I have learned
concentration, patience, flexibility, and the importance of community
with the exact precision of high fidelity of a song, like birds calling home