Thursday, December 17, 2020

Before Sunrise at the Surgical Center

All your lived experience
Becomes hypothetical
As death becomes real
When your heart is on
A monitor 
And how you feel 
Is controlled
Intravenously.

There are drugs that turn
Life off and then on;
All an anesthesiologist 
Who would be God 
Needs
Is faith
In the pharmaceutical 
Solution.

There is no point 
In telling her
The truth,
For the only way 
To step up
To the higher world that needs you
Is to step away
From the one right here

Where the pineal gland
Is lasered 
To enter every day,
This sanitary space
Of healing,
Where one can even hear
A dissenter say, "Bill Gates 
Isn't really a doctor."