Tinnitus Comes From The Latin Word For Ringing

In the narrow kitchen, between sips
of tea, is where our lips meet and linger.
There’s a solid 12-year age gap, but
that’s not the reason why my ear is bleeding.
For the ear is a complicated piece of apparatus,
and we all know that you should never put
anything smaller than your elbow into
your external acoustic meatus.
It's just that some of us choose to learn these things the hard way.
I need to avoid any high or low pressures for the next 6-8 weeks.
That means no planes. And no bathyspheres neither.
I probably shouldn’t even be drinking.
Not with the antibiotics.