Day 13 For Rinko

"Can I please
have a cigarette?..............
Someone give me a GOD DAMN cigarette!"

Echoes bounce down the steril hall
Neon florescent
and the hospital gown tassels are draging
on the ground

"Its good
to see you
again martha...;
so soon too "

Martha mae
martha mae
round the wheel
old and gray

the wheel chair squeeks out
on the white linoleum
martha mae
martha mae

"Did I ever tell you what my name means
child?"
Marth means bitterness.....bitter....ness

47 years
even the hospital bed remembers this
name and the wrist restraints

Back for
another
round of rescue and
steril bandages.