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I.C.U.
Fluorescent fixtures and an EKG
The incessant beeping a symphony
Needles protruding from my every vein
Paralyze without merciful Novocain
A familiar figure with a stethoscope
Claiming to be my outcast last hope
Is shining a bright light into my eyes
In a failed attempt to anaesthetize
Cold metal strikes against pasty skin
But nothing is heard from the void within
Then surveying my self-singed fingertips
It graphs them with skin from love's lower lips
It pokes a finger through the trepan's mark
Mockingly barks a sarcastic remark
Lacerations that shadows inspire
Are stitched shut with rusted red wire
Slowly eviscerating regions
Injected with infectious demons
This physician's silhouette commands
That I succumb to its demands
And cease the blacking of my eyes
Or else I'll soon meet my demise
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