well ya just never know
i thought to myself
3 days in winnipeg at 30 below
i walked the streets alone
utterly alone
too cold for anyone
even the homeless to be out
3 days in different hospitals
talking to different patients
with different things
a 60 year old with lung cancer
a 30 year old with ms
her two sons sat at her bedside and
did their homework
one with a carpentry textbook
the other guy surrounded by his family
going in for a triple bypass
and the old people
all the old people
who want to go home
but sleep there now
talking to someone who isn't there
never was there
about their plans for the weekend
dementia taking over
already taken
the mutters and mumblings
utter insane
the woman
my age
just back from chemo
hair gone in tuffs
her mother
and sister
sat and they talked
and laughed
her room covered with flowers
balloons
rubbing fruits & passion
her room
smelling of mangos and papaya
covering the smell
??
and i wander the streets alone
all i want is someone to tell me
to take my time
while they take my hand
and peer into a freeze frame
of my soul
so someone might know
what is means
someone might figure
my head out
before
my body out
who would leave things
in my room?