“I had a perm today”. EEG While visiting the hospital Periodically, From seven years, for thirty more Two or three times, annually My mother did go with me When way too young, I was To visit doctor by myself, To find outlying cause. Before one visitation, It had been pre arranged That I would have an EEG To see if things had changed An Electo-Encphalo-Graph I’d never had before So mum was reassuring me It wouldn’t, at all, be sore. Describing it quite easily As when she had a perm. With ‘lectrodes attached to my head, Uncomplicated term So when I was much older To visit doc alone, I aye reported back to mum Just how things were goin’ Now when an EEG was done And mum asked how things went Told her “I had a perm today” Knew ‘xactly, what I meant. History of the #encephalogram In the middle of the 19th century, it was established that muscle tissue and the brain emit weakly Electric signals. For the first time, the activity of electric waves was investigated by the #Englishman Ca
Poetry I have composed throughout the years. Some specifically for people, others for printing in anthologies