Nocturia Surprise! ! .... [ I Skipped A Step In My Bedside Routine, Much To My Surprise ] Poem by Bri Edwards

Nocturia is a 'medical' condition causing me to rise from bed...
to avoid peeing IN bed. Peeing 4-5 times per night I don't dread...
as I've got my set of plastic orange juice bottles & a towel on floor,
and I get back to sleep soon enough to dream & snore some more.

But a few nights ago I did what I'd never, … EVER ….. done before.
As usual I'd stood by bed, grabbed a bottle and, raising my peeing tool.
I aimed my 'tool' at mouth of bottle and let my pee begin to pour, ...
a procedure I'd followed for years, not unlike following 'The Golden Rule'. **

The result was a surprise, a wet one, but I soon stopped the flow;
the human body can put a stop (sometimes) to peeing, don't ya know?
I thought poor-placement of my 'tool' was the answer to the mini-shower,
so I repositioned it, using just the light from my electric alarm clock's hour.

BUT, much to my SURPRISE(!) , what I'd done 1000s of times again failed to work.
Another mini-shower caused me to discover my error; had I been a sleepy jerk?
Well, perhaps a 'jerk' as in 'clown', as, with the next line, I will to you prove.
I'd done what I'd always done, EXCEPT …. the bottle's cap I'd forgotten to remove.

(March 6th,2023)
** pun intended (If you don't know the 'Golden Rule', ask me or look it up) ; yes, my urine/pee IS Golden.

bri Edwards aka Brian Edward Whitaker (in the ‘Real World')

:)