emotional / to get thrown from the hospital
b/c of giving pot to a chronic cancer patient who
will be dead / soon /soon
dr. says / yes / good to smoke pot
cigarettes / sure / unofficially tho
he winks / the nurses wink / just make
sure the windows are open
& then pyscho bitch / g/friend shows up
& @ another attempt of cuntrol / & martyr dumb
has moi ejected from the room / POT HEAD
she screams @ me / / LIAR / LOOKING FOR A
PLACE TO SMOKE / /
uh / yeah sure sharon / what ever you say
the only place in town i can smoke weed
is in the hospital / / / ok what ever you say
crazy bitch
& in the other room / he is / dy ing /
so happy to smoke a joint /
so happy to have a visit
so happy to have poetry read aloud
un til
the cuntrol freak shows up
nurses take me out / stand in a
semi circle around me / arms cross ed
ah holy cross
you broke the rules / no smoking
this is a hospital / people have chronic
lung diseases / it's illegal / you are bad
consider your selve warn ed / personae non gratis
we'll be watch ing / /
how terrible of you to come in here & disturb
the family & the patient like that
i leave / / /
scary thing is / she set me up
the day before she opened the window
got an ash try / just make sure the door is
closed / he's allowed to smoke in here
just keep it hush
yeah / until she runs down the hall screaming
for a nurse
warn ing warn ing / beep beep beep / drug addict
in room three fifteen / /
she's making the patient smoke again sir
i hate her
always dressed in widow's black
always crying on the end of his bed
always has a entourage of praying christians by her side
late lee / a photographer follows them / every where
as she flips her head / constant lee on /
ah / busy day of the martyr
it would be
easier / not
to go / to
the hospital
less pain full / in so many ways
the problem is
i gave
him my
word
said /
i'd be there
for him
she's so afraid / some one else might
be in the room when he passes / she
might / miss her glory moment
yes / make the man quit smoke ing pot
on his death bed / there will be no more
poet for you
& the last visit / ends in pain
/
3 comments:
I'm glad you're writing about it. I know you have to write, but it's still admirable, as your actions have been. Fuck it, fight the good fight, poets and pot smokers unite.
Stand strong, Jenni. I'm so sorry. You're right to be there and be.
luv u
~
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