Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia
Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
An Elderly Woman Screaming Obscenities
into her MePhone
in the Parking Lot of Saint
Elizabeth’s Hospital
“Where the
**** are you!? Did you sneak away!?”
Might
serve as an existential question
Addressed
to a patient saint, to God
To the
silent spheres of Creation
“What is
this ****!? Did you ****ing leave me here!?”
We’ve all
asked that question: in a lonely bed
On a
blood-sodden gurney in an emergency room
In the
screaming-burning-gunfire streets
With the
courage and compassion which befits a man
I slipped
around her rage, and avoided her eyes
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