Light, light, light
bright fucking light
bright bright bright
bright bright
fucking light
beautiful
like Sirius in my eye
Dread dread dread
overwhelming dread
dread dread dread
dread dread
fucking dread
of what’s about to happen
in my head
pins pins pins
tiny stabbing pins
pins pins pins
sticking in
fucking pins
paralyse
the whole of my right hand side
Sick sick sick
sick vomit sick
sick vomit sick
sick sick
fucking sick
and more sick
and more and more and more sick
sharp sharp pain
high piercing pain
pain pain pain
pain pain
fucking pain
white spikes of fire
from my brain
still still still
stay fucking still
stay fucking still
still still
fucking still
stay fucking still
stay absolutely fucking still
hour hours hours
long fucking hours
long like days days days
fucking hours and hours
and hours
of pain pain pain
pain pain
sleep sleep sleep
blessed fucking sleep
sleep sleep sleep
sleep sleep
fucking sleep
and when I woke at dawn
the fucking migraine had gone
strange strange strange
very fucking strange
strange strange strange
strange strange
fucking strange
this eerie otherness
that will stay with me for days.
clownonfire
/ March 23, 2012Dear Dotty,
Here’s my wish to you: May this week finally end.
Your #1 fan,
CoF
Dotty Headbanger
/ March 23, 2012Dear clown,
Thank you. One more day to go.
Love Dotty xxx
Dorothy
/ March 23, 2012Dear Dotty,
God love how you managed managed managed to even write write write this poem poem poem because migraines SUCK SUCK SUCK!
But I have magic blue pills that the doctor will only give me 20 at a time because they contain barbituates and they are a wonderful thing that without them I would lie down dead with heat and cold packs after vomiting all day.
I am dreadfully sorry you endured the pain of a migraine. I wish I was talented enough to banish all head pain of the face of the planet because it is the one pain I cannot tolerate….that and the neck pain that accompanies it.
I sincerely hope you are free of it now. Even if you are in the zombie state that follows…take it easy for a while please.
Dorothy
Dotty Headbanger
/ March 23, 2012Dear Dorothy,
They’re the only things that knock me flat.
Christ, I couldn’t have done this yesterday – I couldn’t move never mind write. It’s gone off now though thanks.
I used to have little blue pills called Dixarit but they banned them here. My beta-blockers prevent them mostly.
Love Dotty the Zombie xxx
robincoyle
/ March 23, 2012Yikes. Now I have a migrane in sympathy for yours.
Dotty Headbanger
/ March 23, 2012Dear Robin,
No you don’t.
Love Dotty xxx
judithatwood
/ March 23, 2012Dear Dotty,
I have never had a migraine, so I can’t really empathize. But I have never heard a better description than this poem. Dotty, dear, you are an artist with a pen, and artists always seem to be a little fucked up. Genius!
Dotty Headbanger
/ March 23, 2012Dear Judith,
Love Dotty xxx
I’m glad you’ve never had one, they’re nasty. I need these today –
Ink. [Anette]
/ March 23, 2012Dear Dotty,
This is exactly what migraine feels like. The rhythm, the repetition, the continuation. You nailed it Dotty. You really nailed it. ♥
Ink. [Anette]
/ March 23, 2012P.S. Dear Dotty, would you mind if I reblog? I think I have a good picture to go with it.
Dotty Headbanger
/ March 23, 2012Dear Anette,
Oohh, a picture!! Yes, that’s fine, it’s a lovely compliment.
Love Dotty xxx
Dotty Headbanger
/ March 23, 2012Dear Anette,
Poor you for knowing what it’s like.
Love Dotty xxx
Ink. [Anette]
/ March 23, 2012All right Dotty, here it is:
http://anettehermann.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/ink-proudly-present-the-fing-migraine-poem-by-dotty-headbanger/
Let me know what you think ♥
Dotty Headbanger
/ March 23, 2012Dear Anette,
I love it. Sorry about all the comments I put on your blog – I couldn’t get the smiley faces to work.
Love Dotty xxx
Ink. [Anette]
/ March 23, 2012Dearest Dotty, I’m laughing so hard I can hardly keep my balance. You didn’t spam my blog girl! I love every one of your comments, but those with smiley face attempts was hilarious and lovely nonetheless. I am so very pleased you like the outcome. Thank you Dotty ♥
Dotty Headbanger
/ March 23, 2012Dear Anette,
Thank YOU.
Love Dotty xxx
cobyjean
/ March 29, 2012That’s it. As someone else commented — you nailed it. Even that odd fugue state-ish Day After. The “pleasure” of a (M word — I can’t even say it) is when it ends. Cathartic, really. With your venerable permission, I’d like to just post a copy of this to my door, any time I get a…M word. If anyone doesn’t “get it” after that — and walks in smoking a cigarette, a smell I usually crave but it will kill me when I have a….M word — they’re too stupid to live and I will remember to kill them. Once I can finally get up again. I love Dotty.
Dotty Headbanger
/ March 29, 2012Dear Gobby,
And I love Gobby, when she shuts up for a minute.
Love Dotty xxx
The Uncle In The Attic
/ March 23, 2012“Loooooooovvvvveeeeee iiiiiiit… ” (<– gotta sing that)
Dearest, Dotty,
I have heard in the future that a little Botox between the eyes (on the glabella) will make your migraines as right as rain.
Love,
Uncle
xoxo
PS- Of course, I don't believe a Botox Nurse would do a house call. Let's not lose hope!
Dotty Headbanger
/ March 23, 2012Dear Uncle,
I might look on the internet and see if I can get some – oh, I’ve just thought, I could invent a new trepanning kit that injects botox at the same time – for Mentals with migraines or jsut for vain Mentals who don’t like their wrinkles. The Dotty Headbanger Botox Trepanning Kit. Or —- no, no, I’m going to invent The Dotty Headbanger Botox Brick – it sounds better. Thank you!!
Love Dotty xxx
Dotty Headbanger
/ March 23, 2012P.S. I think you have to be one of those rich women who have Botox parties to get them to come to your house. I can’t get the Asda delivery van to come any more since I didn’t have the £5.00 to pay the driver.
Love Dotty xxx
The Uncle In The Attic
/ March 23, 2012Dearest, Dotty,
Yes! The Botox Brick! Throw it right between the eyes on the glabella! That will make any migraine go away!
Love,
Uncle
xoxo
Dotty Headbanger
/ March 23, 2012Dear Uncle,
That’s going to be my new threat for when Lottie or Scotty come round – ‘COME ANY CLOSER AND I’LL BRICK YOUR GLABELLA!‘ (I LOVE that word – glabella, glabella, glabella)
Ha ha ha ha ha
Love Dotty xxx
The Uncle In The Attic
/ March 23, 2012Dearest, Dotty,
I also like: “Glabella THIS!”
Love,
Uncle
xoxox
Dotty Headbanger
/ March 23, 2012Dear Uncle,
I wonder if there’s a baby girl somewhere called Glabella. It wouldn’t surprise me.
Love Dotty xxx
The Uncle In The Attic
/ March 23, 2012Glabella Lucresia Schultz
Dotty Headbanger
/ March 23, 2012Dear Uncle,
Glabella Obama
Love Dotty xxx
The Uncle In The Attic
/ March 23, 2012Dearest, Dotty,
Glabella Cameron
Love, Uncle xoxox
Dotty Headbanger
/ March 23, 2012Dear Uncle,
Glabella bin Laden (deceased)
Love Dotty xxx
pouringmyartout
/ March 23, 2012That had to feel good. To get that off your chest. Out of your head. That’s what I meant. You didn’t have heartburn. That would just be silly. When I read that I could feel the pain. My head might be starting to hurt. It is very hard to tell with my head. It has a mind of its own.
Dotty Headbanger
/ March 23, 2012Dear pmao,
Can I borrow your sunglasses, please, they look darker than the ones I’m wearing?
Love Dotty xxx
the howler and me
/ March 24, 2012Dear Dotty,
While I love how you captured the migraine with words, I am sorry you had one. (believe me I get them once in a while and I feel your pain) Migraines are evil!
-the howler and me
Dotty Headbanger
/ March 24, 2012Dear the howler and me,
I know. I’d kill them if I could. I’m sorry you get them too.
Love Dotty xxx
themofman
/ March 24, 2012This poem makes me howl!
Dotty Headbanger
/ March 24, 2012Dear themofman,
In agony or with laughter?
Love Dotty xxx
Nina Shadi
/ March 24, 2012So funny!!! Thanks: )
~Nina
Dotty Headbanger
/ March 24, 2012Dear Nina,
You’re welcome. I suffer for my blog.
Love Dotty xxx
Madame Weebles
/ April 4, 2012My dear Dotty,
I just saw this poem only today–kudos! But also sympathies as you obviously know what migraines are like. I never thought of writing a poem to describe my migraines but you’ve done it better than I ever could have. Genius. Simply genius.
xoxo Mme Weebles
Dotty Headbanger
/ April 4, 2012Dear Mme Weebles,
Thank you. I’m sorry you have them too.
Love Dotty xxx
Pat
/ August 30, 2012This is just about bang on, if you’ll excuse the pun. But I would also add Poo, poo, poo and fxxxxcxg poo because I get that too, too, too. Horrible!
Dotty Headbanger
/ September 1, 2012Dear Pat,
I’m sorry you get them too. It is Horrible – like you said, fucking pooey pooey horrible.
Love Dotty xxx
lowerarchy
/ September 2, 2012Nice x
My wife suffers from menstrual migraines and has on average about four each cycle. She’s hoping they will cease at menopause.
D xx
Dotty Headbanger
/ September 4, 2012Dear Dave,
Oooh, nasty.
Love Dotty xxx
lowerarchy
/ September 4, 2012She’s 52 and hoping for a quick menopausal exit…
D xx
Dotty Headbanger
/ September 4, 2012Dear Dave,
I gave my dead husband, ex-Simon, a quick exit.
Love Dotty xxx
lowerarchy
/ September 4, 2012I wish I’d known you sooner – you could have helped me with my first wife – ex marks the spot, eh?
I remain,
D xx
Dotty Headbanger
/ September 5, 2012Dear Dave,
Well, obviously you somehow got rid of your first wife or you wouldn’t be onto your second.
Love Dotty xxx
lowerarchy
/ September 5, 2012Happily she left me looking after two kids, one of which was another chap’s and the second came about when she got pregnant after we’d donme it a couple of times. She got her PhD and is now a curator at the museum of the Birmingham Mint.
Happy families anyone?
Love
D xx
Dotty Headbanger
/ September 5, 2012Dear Dave,
Hmmm. Wench.
Love Dotty xxx
lowerarchy
/ September 5, 2012It happens
Luckily I was strong and energetic then. If it was now…
I live and learn madam and remain etc.
D xx
lowerarchy
/ September 7, 2012Dear Dotty
I’ve never had a migraine but some so-called poetry has a similar effect on me. I’m glad to report yours does not.,
Dave xx
Dotty Headbanger
/ September 7, 2012Dear Dave,
Thank you, I’m pleased to know that.
Love Dotty xxx
lowerarchy
/ September 7, 2012Dear Dotty
My wife was so impressed with your poem she got quite carried away.
When she comes back I’ll ask her to comment herself.
I remain, madam, your satirical servant
Davideo Kidd AKA
Dave xx
Dotty Headbanger
/ September 9, 2012Dear Dave,
Where has she been carried away to? I hope it’s not too far, the buses are so unreliable these days.
Love Dotty xxx
lowerarchy
/ September 9, 2012Dear Dotty
That’s the trouble with wives – you can’t find one when you need her then whole harems come along together
I remain, madam, your humble eunuch, I mean servant
D xx