Emergency Intervention
This may sting a little
Stop being so scared
shuffling around room to room
in your pajamas,
your last birthday gift boxers,
your previously-fluffy-now-matted-near-dead-looking sheep slippers,
your morose predilection for obituary columns,
your low self-confidence wavering, threatening deeper depths.
Cancel waiting for a new day week season year.
Won’t speak of fresh starts or clichéd new beginnings,
scheduled journal writing and group therapy sessions.
There will be no beating around the bush pussyfooting
prevarication evasion hemming or hawing.
Not even films with actors fence-sitting in them.
Bare-bones no BS getting down to brass tacks.
You do this or you die.
*Emergency Access*
This is equivalent cardiac arrest trauma code crash cart present
defibrillator pads attached.
No one’s thinking it,
but there’s percent chance of PEA,
of asystole — non-shockable rhythms.
You’ve let this world-its demented sadism
infect freeze stifle and paralyze
mind heart being breathing.
Lost awareness of…
