Automatically Illegible

This is how he wrote:

this is how he wrote he lay in bed, nightshirt, hands folded benign over pad pen, cap off, resting on his chest

after a bit, motion pen across the paper hello, what’s this, and … Bob’s your uncle he’s writing

a few pages each night adding up but always totally illegible

after some years he could make out his meaning & decipher the scrawl

no one else ever did