cool moonlight outside my hospital door (standard:poetry, 101 words)
Author: rocco	Added: Aug 04 2004	Views/Reads: 2831/2	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
a poem about charlie barnett who died last year from cancer

Moonlight, silver light on my black face Mixes with the metal Tangles
with the steel My smooth bald head I-V bottle sparkles I marvel at the 
sky in between vomiting 

I marvel because of the sky's enormity And how small I am In the steel
chair I recall once that I was bigger A giant An oddity Before such 
belongings as germs Worms and poisonous things 

How quickly life went by The blur of landscapes Speeding past and I dare
not touch With a shaking finger I count a billion stars Before the 
medicine puts me momentarily Out of the pain. 


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