Saturday, March 4, 2023

A Dead Bug in the Hospital - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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A Dead Bug in the Hospital

 

Recumbent on a gurney, little to do

Except to wait and think and hope and pray

Not sure where I was in the surgical queue

Above me the fluorescents, where a dead bug lay

 

We were both quiet, he especially so

I would have asked him how he came to rest

On a panel of plastic; I wanted to know -

He had been blinded by the light, I guessed

 

I thought of this as I lay in my too-short bed

“You’re in recovery now,” a kind voice said

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