have you seen a doctor | by sadi ranson-polizzotti
(first line given by Betsey Hartford, rest of poem written by Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti)Have you seen a doctor?
Mine has gone missing.
I search in dreams, yet
still I come up empty
she had a diagnosis to give
my sentence, repentance.
I was to have copper wires
taped the blonde silks of my head
I would be hooked to the fuse
box. She would be the death
of me. I know it.
Yet
epileptic, I am so full
of sparks I’d fuel a village.
What thievery of me
how selfish, to seize
at random inteveral.
Have you seen a doctor?
I must not let others
suffer. This gift I have
electric, sparking blue
and bright. They need it
tonight, to read by, to
live by, make love by
to shed the light
on what is life.
posted by sadi ranson-polizzotti @ 10:26 AM
<< Home