'Speak up - no need to shout -I'm not THAT deaf! '
- do I have real reason to complain,
if years of partial listening have brought
now partial hearing in their fateful train?
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..............with your further modification, the message gains added resonance: -)
A good meditation on an affliction. I had 20% hearing in my left ear for over a year - and then it shot back up in one strange moment almost to to 85%. It is irritating and humiliating - sometimes you just want to be off along so you; lre not saying WHAT all the time.