Today's poem is from Cindy Smith

Chemotherapy       
               Cindy Smith

It should look more
dangerous than this.       
They should pierce your vein       
with a rattlesnake.       
They should fill your shirt       
with snow.       
All these bare-skulled penitents       
know it’s true.       
This is the new Inquisition.       
They will do anything to save you.

Posted with the author's permission.

Comments

[Robert]

Chilling. Thanks for sharing this.

[Mary Scriver]

My paranoid brother said that the doctor wanted him to sign all sorts of permissions to do experiments on him. I thought he was imagining things. Now my cousin's wife tells me that since my cousin was unconscious it was SHE, NOT paranoid, who was faced with signing those papers. She refused.

Yes -- rattlesnakes.

Prairie Mary

[Cindy]

Rattlesnakes, yes. But they really do want to save you.

[Marcy Sheiner]

really good poem