Thursday, May 26, 2011

Vital Signs Absent (Beat Poem)

I leave you comatose like diabetic ketoacidosis
Or cease your respiration like a deep vein thrombosis
Impair cerebral function like Wegener's granulomatosis
And leave you scarred like a liver with cirrhosis

In your circulatory system I am hypovolemia
I will render your body to a state of perpetual ischemia
Deleterious to your health like Streptococcal bacteremia
I rip apart your blood like Sickle Cell anemia

If you are a heart, I am ventricular fibrillation
Your throat belongs to me--I endow you with lacerations
For your code blue, there will be no defibrillation
My attacks are perpetual, like progressive demyelination

Attacking your brain like a metastasizing carcinoma
I crush your grey matter like a subdural hematoma
Then create a hole in your throat larger than a stoma
If you were solely muscle, then you are a myoma

I am the nephritis to your dialysis
Your logic is distorted--no need for psychoanalysis
For your neurodegeneration, I am the catalyst
I am the cerebral edema that your doctor has missed

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