superb, dennis! thank you! as the old refrain goes, you don't miss your water till your well runs dry i have never before reveled in anything the way i do now in dopamine's 'kick-in and that 'on' feeling it produces! janet At 15:35 2001/02/08 +0800, Dennis Greene wrote: >Dopamine > >It is like hovering, except >that nothing ever hovered with such weight >or waited such a long time for the life >to flow from tip of toe to top of head, >but oooooooohhhhh the glorious ecstasy >as memory moves your limbs, >and you forget to think >and simply surge into the Nike moment; >and just do it. > >It is like sinking, or rather >trying to sink, as if your chair was there >and yet not there and you are caught, >your skin one layer of skin beneath its >skin, your life one layer of life into >its life, but oooooooohhhhh >the sheer sweet glorious ecstasy, >you disengage and feel yourself slide free; >you simply do it. > >It is like nothing else you’ll ever feel >your mind and body free, sweet ecstasy >of heart and spirit, sweet glorious >surging moment, breaking free, one >moment to be me, me, me just me, >sweet dopamine why must it always be >a short excursion? Why drag me back >behind the blood brain barrier? >Why must I always lose it? > >© Dennis Greene 2000 > janet paterson, an akinetic rigid subtype parkie 53 now / 44 dx cd / 43 onset cd / 41 dx pd / 37 onset pd TEL: 613 256 8340 SMAIL: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada EMAIL: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/