Yesterday I received the Doctor’s diagnosis of an ailment that has been troubling me for some time. I have dyspepsia!
I don’t suppose a doctor ever received such a joyous response to this news as mine did. I practically whooped around the surgery. For now, I can read my favourite poem, by Lancelot Mulliner in ‘Came the Dawn’, with the added poignancy of personal suffering.
DARKLING (A Threnody)
By L. BASSINGTON MULLINER
(Copyright in all languages, including the Scandinavian)Black branches,
Like a corpse’s withered hands,
Waving against the blacker sky:
Chill winds,
Bitter like the tang of half-remembered sins;
Bats wheeling mournfully through the air,
And on the ground
Worms,
Toads,
Frogs,
And nameless creeping things;
And all around
Desolation,
Doom,
Dyspepsia,
And Despair.
I am a bat that wheels through the air of Fate;
I am a worm that wriggles in a swamp of Disillusionment ;
I am a despairing toad;
I have got dyspepsia.from: Came the Dawn (Meet Mr Mulliner )
The physician stopped short of prescribing Mulliner’s Buck-U-Uppo, but I suppose one can’t have everything.
HP
Plumtopia 
Great poem 🙂 I wish you a speedy recovery from the dyspepsia all the same!
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I suppose you hope this will get you recognised at Droitgate Spa.
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Ahhh…. One can only aspire to such greatness.
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Just start smiling in an all-knowing sort of way and all will soon be well.
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At least you are one step closer to becoming an American millionaire.
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Yippee!
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XD I just realized why you knew which book I meant! Well said, tally ho.
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Ahh well…. It passes the time.
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What amazing luck. Have you started collecting any scarabs yet?
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Err….well…. as you ask, I do have one or two small scarabesque items.
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Good to know the progress being made!
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