A weird poem

FRANK SINATRA’S INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES AND RELATED HEALTH PROBLEMS

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301.3 Explosive personality

Lately I find myself out gazing at stars

780.1. Hallucinations

Hearing guitars like someone in love

291.0 Delirium tremens

Each time I look at you, I’m limp as a glove

338.4. Pain, not elsewhere classified

And feeling like someone in love

925.1 Crushing injury of face, scalp, and neck

Sometimes the things I do astound me

297.0 Paranoid state, simple

Mostly whenever you’re around me

327.35 Circadian rhythm-jetlag

Lately I seem to walk as though I had wings

327.36 Circadian rhy-shift work

Bump into things like someone in love

297.3 Shared psychotic disord

Like someone in love

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Written while researching the ICD-9 and listening to Frank Sinatra at the same time.

Rachel Shimp