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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of obtund.
  • adjective medicine Describing someone who is far from alert or oriented to time and space, and exhibits other signs being confused, a state just short of frank delirium.

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  • I work in medicine and write poetry. When I first heard this word I wrote this:

    I have been obtunded

    been trying too hard

    making music with misshapen instruments

    -a pianjo

    -a trumpinet

    -a drymbal

    disconcerting

    what road is there that leads from pain-

    none-

    what road is there that makes it sufferable-

    you-

    the sky bleeds heat

    from its cool blueness-

    a great trick-

    like splashing into the ocean

    and catching fire-

    the fish would laugh a beefy laugh-

    you would throw hot love on me

    to bring me down

    I would gasp hard and fast

    to hurry its rescue-

    wheeeeeeeee

    -charles edward jolliffe

    May 11, 2009