Victoria Anderson-Throop Poet Free verse

Kiss of Chemo

KISS OF CHEMO           

                                  Aromas shed their piquant charm
                                  double doors hide double doors,
                                        escorted by a multiplicity of vapid smiles
                                            deceitful bric a brac to disarm

                                     
                                                      ---a bit of witless repartee
                                   thrown into the anticeptic air
                                        minimum wage porters making pretty
                                        accompanies  another dance of pain

                                      vacuous doctor handshake--
                                               clinic bred and reborn
                                      
                                                 cobra eyes prevaricate
                                                      seek to charm
                                              patient's straight and hungry gaze--
                                        sunny windows lose their warm
                                       
                                           mechanized  whirlwinds grind particles of sound 
                                                             and sing
                                              a malignant tune from cyber space
                                         twirling and creating
                                                 medicreatures with one face
                                           characters well meaning
                                                rough handling
                                            blending procedures
                                                 without hard edges

                                        --capture each tintinnabulation and
                                          bouncing clicking glance--                    
                                              transubstantiated
                                            to computer files
                                              
                                                 insures payment
                                                     without
                                                       Hope

           
                                  Victoria Anderson-Throop  2013©

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Shawn Munoz December 30, 2013 at 4:12 PM Chemo a Savior and Curse when undergoing at the same time. My FIance' just finished her last one and Happy about it. I pray you never have to go through it again. Nice Work.

Eileen Manassian December 30, 2013 at 3:05 PM Oh....this is such an insight into the cinical side of things which doesn't take into considerarion the HERO undergoing the treatment. Love to you...Healing....Peace....