Long Anesthetic Poems

I met a proper woman in a proper pub on a Monday in Peoria. It was noon, time for lunch, and we were sitting stool to stool over very large burgers at a long mahogany...

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This was last Saturday night. We were at a rooftop party in downtown New Haven thrown by ‘DocHouse.’ Doc-House is kind of a frat-house, owned by Dr. Melon, where he and seven doctoral students live....

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Double Set Up


The first lump was the scariest in 1983.
 I had found it in the shower.
 Two other major surgeries I've already had that very year.
 I was thirty three.
 A mammogram back then...

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“But we realized, decades on back,
how consciousness burns out machines,
we are not gods when we create,
there are hard limits to our dreams.

“And the same questions you have asked,
why create what must quickly die,
haunted humans for...

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Josh’s drinking days were long behind him.  The three beers he drank before ordering his meal; the two beers he drank during his meal; and, the two Bailey’s he consumed after his meal had...

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(This verse is painted for my Loving Daughter P Suzanna Christy on her 8th birthday) 

It was the day she began to move out,
She’d been in the cradle of her mother’s womb
Some seven years before...

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She feels the sun's heat despite sitting in shadows 

Feeling heart beats as loud as drums - and the drums weren't just beats.

They were clocks ticking down to zero, waiting to explode - 

Tears as...

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Find peace, 6 feet under 
Harsh wind tears the skin off of her soiled fingers
She's set fire to every bridge she built 
And inhales the smoke that lingers 
She's stroked Dawn's crimson ringlets 
And grasped...

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I wanna state a cardiac arrest for ya chest
Detest your own humidity within humanity, cats rest in vanity
Controlling underground charisma the mic got me checking
Wrecking one image of fame at a time
Cursed vines connecting family...

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With me, during my high-school-days, studied a little boy, 
His father was a doctor. This filled him with immense joy;
At his constant demand, once to his dad's study I went,
Seeing the skeleton, to my feelings,...

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What's the point of Dr. Dishwater? 
Well, what's the point of anything? 
The only thing that appears 
to have a concrete purpose 
is my car key 
- And I haven't been able to afford a...

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With my doctor’s ok, I’ve come to this small room of a little-known clinic
hoping to have the damaged nerves inside my brain “reset” in a long session.
I relax in a reclining chair as the dissociative...

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Time, night, and sleep, I could not tell,
For down on the bathroom tiles, I fell
I hit my head but not so bad,
My hand, my muse screeched “are you mad, 
What have you done”, confused, in...

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"I'm not going to say it, but my emotions are spilling and breaking, and it's you I'm chasing, forever face this, I really like you, and no I'm not confused, I feel so estatic, magic,...

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A woman’s spirit hovers
above an inert body that is hers.
She sees the surgeons cutting
and then sees their frantic efforts
as they try to bring her back to life.
She had died and yet is able
to describe exactly...

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Fade to grey


Take my hand and let me set fire to your mind.
I want to see, what you are hiding inside.
I’m blinded by the light of your eyes
And I just called to say, I never...

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We don’t have wishes from the stars
The skyscrapers are hidden our sun. 
Mornings are anesthetic by horns, 
Vanishing the morning contemplation
I want be leaving in a UFO from here. 
Searching other worlds where life exists,...

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Thine mind falters ‘cross thee blades.  
Smokeless heat unsheathed today,
Languishes and bleeds.  
Passionate Seeds soaked in time 
Breathe in convulsions in….

You blindly smile and close your eyes.  
In shock you’ve become mine....

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BYPASS SURGERY

It’s really quite amazing what can be done today
To heal our human bodies from ailments in the way.
I had some serious blockage that needed a repair,
And quickly they determined what I would need in...

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I awoke in horror
as I was under anesthetic
and meant to be unconscious.
I was a whirling floating spirit
flying over my own body.
I was in shock as I realized I was the surgeon
with scalpel and retractor in...

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Resistant laugh,
Scope of my pride,
Honorable integrity
With a twist of wisdom and wit,
Is it hard to notice
The night turning over
To the peer of the morning sun
While the frozen ground is cracked
From a winter's chill
Like the chapped...

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Sleep's suspended awareness as nothingness reigns.
It's when bedding is mussed and disheveled is hair.
It's a welcome escape, anesthetic for pains,
And a physical must--time for rest and repair.

Sleep's a snooze or repose, nodding off, or a...

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Did I ever think I'd survive, 
And see this world again?
A shock stroke of pain in the brain! 
And I felt the blood drain!
Everything went blank! 
A blackout! Black-hole coma pursued!
A short stop of the...

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I was a blind woman walking among the dead, but I travel alone now, a swimmer 
in a black sea, unable to continue another futile struggle at the hands of hope's 
humiliation as I make...

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Control me, console me, bestow and bless with your power and beauty
Possess me, caress my senses with exotic intoxicating perfumes
Cast spells with your existence and immeasurable intricacies
Elaborate, exact folds as if replicated in God made...

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