You're dead, you're all dead
The room was loud with quiet sobs
and dying didn't sound very good either
there was a cough
which was strong enough to push a pencil
and send it rolling off the table
it hit the ground and snapped in two
the clock stopped
it fell off the wall and onto the plant pot
which smashed
the flower was fucked forever, soil soared into the sky
I picked up the shattered pencil pieces
a chunk of soil hit me in the eyeball
I went to rub it out but
there was a splinter in my finger now
everything went from worse to rubbish
my eye was bleeding and it stung with mud
the room was full of tears as the dead clung together
I should have told them all to leave but I thought I might as well wait
the wallpaper was a nicer colour
underneath the clocks old spot
at least something good
was poking out from under all of this
there's no justice in a needle
there's no cure for human error
just the prick of one pin
and I have stuck their fates together
one woman, with a child strapped to her back, stood
animal wild, face wet and red, screaming
I could see her through my eye blood and she was bloody angry
all of a sudden she stopped, static, and fell... backward
I laughed, the rest of the room went silent, then psycho
they all rose and made a run for me
I quickly told a funny joke about horrible ghosts and it must've been good
because they all died there and then, I'd like to think of laughter
I dropped the pencil pieces then looked at all the corpses, it was a shame
about the flower and the clock, I smiled at the nice old wall paper patch
My eye's bleeding, my eye is bleeding
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this was a challenge to write a poem of at least 30 lines describing a scenario in a doctors office in which some one has just received the results of a life or death medical test.
I decided to tell it from the doctors perspective and tried not to focus on what the test was, who was dying or why, but to instead examine the effects that this had on the air in the room. I wanted to inject a dose of humour into a very serious and slightly macabre subject matter and I felt this was the best way to approach it.
Don't enjoy this one too much, you sick fucks.