Best Unit Poems

It unfurls itself along the x-axis
with a contained passion, fluctuating
between -1 and 1 like a photon
whose brightness is one of an infinite number
of dimensionless values, coherent, distinguishable,
continuous.
It is counterintuitively optimistic; it insists
that half of a pie should be called pi radians.
It confuses to enlighten; it...

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Neonatal Intensive Care Unit NICU

Are things at times we may be laughing
But never, ever will one be under-staffing
With fewer nurses who were often needed
Assist along a birth that could be impeded.

Then there was the time a son we did adore
By my beautiful wife baby she...

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The AC unit
Cold, Hard
Freezing, Shivering, Dying
The AC unit, The Dials, Bed bugs, Bed sheets
Sleeping, Snuggling, Dreaming
Warm, Soft
The Bed...

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“UNIT 47”



today I woke up in Riverside               
and took a drive to San 
Diego. there I met a man 
named Joe. he’d taken me out 
to eat ribs. I finished what...

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So small, one could not possibly imagine............ 
That you could represent life..... 
you contain so many organelles.......... 
but one of the most inportant 
is DNA.... 
DNA is replicated, transcribed and translated 
into messages......... 
The result structures of cells that make  
you you.............. 
That you...

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Families are the most important social unit in existence on earth today.  For it is out of the 
family that every worker, teacher, preacher, agnostic, librarian, construction worker, mason, 
mayor, Senator, Congressman, President, World Leader, mothers, fathers, and yes, every 
man and woman who...

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Are you frying today? No? Not at all? An attempt to pull the frying pan out would be better off left alone as other plates could fall. Oh dear. The frying is best done outside then? Yes? Are you even listening to the logic? You...

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i plant a tree in the unit of your soul
i embrace the happiness that refuses to hide in a corner
i loosen up slowly thank in part to the brightness of your quiet genius
i never thought it would be you who lives your life signing autographs...

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he sits so smug 
       and condescending there

in his ergonomic, black
       leather chair

behind a slab of tinted
       plexiglass

on stainless-steel, to him
      ...

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The missus upstages Grosse and Quade at unit b44...
for upcoming June 2023 inspection/violation.

Countdown triggers nails
bitten down to quick
geesh if only Mary Poppins
could pull off cheap trick
or think super tramping Glinda courtesy
film Wizard of Oz
Good Witch of the North
riding at light speed in nick
of time travelling...

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Independence panacea dashingly suggests
      We purchase our palace hexagonal 
      Reoriented Nerida handed padlock, blessed 
      Fathoms red cross heiress of hospital 


      Imposter student...

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Discect the cetacean on the table
Intercept the axon if you are able
Detect the carcass beneath the table
Protect the deadbeats, as they are unable.

Seven Senators Stood Singing (p)salms!
Shrimp stuffed pie crust often alarms!
consideration only harms!

Boris Yeltzin with upraised Arms!...

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Welcome to 5th floor burn unit,
UCSD Medical Center.
   This is the sign you pass,
As you enter.

   They ask what happened,
How did you get burned?
   They do this all with 
Care and concern.
 
   On a scale of...

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Mental Health Trauma Unit : 
There is a tree of life upon the wall..
Some times bare when Autumn falls ..
I took to creating a scene,  of apples butterfly's birds and singing ..Some  friends were delighted and a new girl came on the block...

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TOGETHER WE ARE UNIQUE 
By Erastus "Popyeny" Shipuleni 

It is not about me and you, never been.
It is about us, together as one, 
That together we are unique
Yet together we are un separable

It is not about you neither me,
It about the unit and bold bond
Together...

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