This year was a first in all my years of participating in The 3:15 Experiment… I spent the wee hours of the first day of the experiment in the hostpital. Nothing serious, but I didn’t get back home until 2:30 AM, so had just gotten to bed when 3:15 AM hit:
August 1, 2009
3:15 AM Vancouver, BC
Awake at 3:15 this is not
how I wanted to start how I
wanted to feel infected
3 hours in the emergency room
for a box of penicillin. the bent ear
the booby-trapped chair. two
nonagenarians. one forgetful
and the other deaf. she told
the same stories every hour he
couldn’t hear so he repeated them
every hour every our repeated
what island, dear? How many
times have we gone to Cuba?
What is that sport our grandson plays?
That’s how I’d like my taxes spent.
Lousy Americans did wrong by Cuba.
our cat should have been in the
hospital – he had heat stroke
and child protection services took
Sally Anne away. screaming.
Bipolar lies kidnapped possessions
waiting room after hours a
midnight ride.
You can still join the Experiment. Feel free to JUMP IN at any time…
That’s a cool one. You can see the hospital experience translated through the memory vagueness of sleep and that is in the poem too. Very cool.
thanks, Paul…
I forgot to add that I then got up at 4:30 AM and biked 45 kilometers. My husband and I had planned a fabulous bike-camping trip and I wasn’t going to let a little emergency room visit keep me down! heh heh