A FLAKER'S FLOATER FACTS
by Sherry S.

"Floaters swim in the eyes of more than half
the population your age," said my doc
when I checked in as Pig Pen from Peanuts, trash
swirling through my visual field like a Rorschach.

Spidery confetti reconfigured itself within
each eye while the usual spots frayed to make me
flake like a parade of one, as I shed old skin
that I viewed through my new vitreous debris.

Flakers are often assigned coverage grades.
Doc says the percentage of folks
with floaters is the same as their age,
so if your eyes stay clear through all your decades,
it's no joke, old bloke, you'll have beaten the odds in spades.