Emergency Room For Nothing

a long, long time.

That hospital is haunted.
It's a haunted hospital.

My chair had a cigarette on it
and the dust I licked
my fingers.

One of them starts singing
and the other one guesses
This will be the day

the scene is ten million years old
nobody understands
nobody understands how this works.

Why don't the two of you turn into thunderbirds?

Reviews

[marj]

love the repetition. not only stressing what is important, but serving a sound purpose in the poem. elusive, haunting (of course), succinct ... enjoyable read.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

ghosts will stay over millions of years...in that haunted hospital of the heart...
the place where we never really recover...we just try to understand...

and hope someday to fly away.

[Rene Salinas]

So how good people end up on A & E translated into Canadian ER I think which is the place where my better half used to work once while we were young I spent countless hours waiting for her to finish her shift at the mos unusual of hours. Good job I like Crepuscular. Certainly the scenes there as a cigarrtte burns endlessly while waiting on some places some sing some just wait. People come and go none really knows. Like marionettes, or puppets walking around , Ha like that penelope.....

(wissles to the music of the thunderbirds)

Thankyou!

[Laura Lynn]

I like how the opening stanza is so emphatic repeating that the hospital is haunted that we must know it and believe it. I understand that there could be a chair that had a cigarette on it, but I don't understand why "and the dust I licked my fingers" I like that the scene is ten million years old and the "nobody understands/nobody understands how this works" ...when one reaches the second repetition that is when I start to believe it, which surely wouldn't work if every line were...(of course)? maybe not

I like sports cars, but I don't know who the two people are nor who wishes them to turn into a racy sportcars

[The Twin Arenas]

I really like the way
and the dust I licked
my fingers
beats. I like the beat of it. And I think it gets the point across, like, dusty fingers are being licked. I guess I was just trying to be a fancy s**t.

more than one type of thunderbird.

[Laura Lynn]

Ok type of bird, lol, let's us all be serious, & hilarious too! Thanks for that too.