Hooray for Captain Spaulding...

though he played only a cameo role

helping me secure corrective eyewear I sport

mucho gratitude to all parties involved

including the missus,

cuz she needed to shuttle me

to and from hither and yon,

wherever I needed to go,

cuz entire bill paid

(including thorough examinations and lenses -

the frames repurposed

from one used many moons ago)

courtesy AETNA Medicare Advantra

in tandem with superb

ocular optometrist Doctor Paul Halpern,

that would be an unpaid for plug

touting outstanding kickass knowhow

insync with his offbeat good humor

without making a spectacle of himself.

Many insightful revolutionary breakthroughs

linkedin to gamut of intelligent people,

whose exhaustive mental,

physical and spiritual efforts

witnessed visually impaired

(shortsightedness affected wordsmith

since he entered second grade

at Eagleville Elementary School

circa approximately mid nineteen sixties)

and anticipated him being called

mildly derogatory name four eyes,

thus withheld donning glasses

at the expense of lackluster marks

for that half year, cuz parents moved

to 324 Level Road

initially R(oute) D(elivery)

until Donald Neilson

(if memory serves me

more correctly than spelling

of his surname, and "The Idler Wheel

Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw

and Whipping Cords Will Serve You

More Than Ropes Will Ever Do" by Fiona Apple),

and yesterday November 12th, 2024

happily, proudly, and zealously wears glasses

to see the webbed wide world crystal clear.

Post cataract surgery,

about couple months

after consultation at Kremer Eye Center

and finally came to figurative juncture

whereat (drum roll please...)

prescription adjusted eyeglasses

now sit squarely on my button nose -

as long as I hold them there with a finger

until cosmetic surgeon affixes a bump

on the bridge of said nose

analogous to the song titled

I can see clearly now the rain is gone

I can see all obstacles in my way

(courtesy Johnny Nash,

who raked in quite a bit of cash)

to drive our 2020 Hyundai Elantra

after dark shadows slink and slither

along the edge of night

encompassing an ever widening berth,

where the outer limits

meld with swathes of the twilight zone.