Sick People
They’ve put me in a room with sick people
I know I’m sick too but I don’t look it
They do
Two of them guzzle oxygen through pipes and tubes.
The other is a groaning skeleton
With the sallow face of death.
Is this my future?
Would a new patient coming into the ward look at me and say “my God”.
Please let me have the luck to die with the dignity of a dog.
