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A Closer Look
I'm remembering that memory again,
the one where I'm pacing hospital walls, warding
off the reek of feces and urine
Some are bleeding through their sheets, and their
feet have gangrene and their eyes are over-dosed
A man shows me his penis and a woman dangles shirtless
And they don't care, they have pills and morphine pumps
You know, I had one of those once
Every six minutes you excercise the benefit of
an opposable thumb
And the nurse will smile friendly and say "gee baby, does it hurt that
much?"
No darling. It never does.
But it's a right I have because I am here, and I'd rather be
driving up the East Coast
You carry that with you.
People place their lives in other people's hands, when
its people's hands that end life every single day
You think because he's a doctor and has eleven
years experience that he wont fuck up and cut the wrong thing
Take a closer look.
They even have machines managing heart rates.
Yeah because machines are flawless
Machines are smarter then gut and judgement
And you think because he's a doctor he doesn't have
nasty thoughts about your open mouth and naked body
See no amount of college can change the fact that we
are human beings
And if we were capable of Aushwitz, then, we are capable of anything.
you write very well. honest, raw and powerful. always meaningful to read.
Avoid hospitals at all costs, mistakes are made there all the time that cost folks their lives. Its called "human error", but by whatever name they call it, or how human, you're just as dead.