I HOPE I MAKE IT!

• *Tom Secretarski typewriters his work on my old Royal
  

I don’t know which

Near, dear or dead death it was

But it was

EMERGENCY EMERGENCY ROOM!

STAT!

I was here one minute

Lucid

Gone the next

Awake

Oblivious

To what had occurred

They

Twelve in the ER

Hovered about

Busily

With some looking on with

Puzzling expressions

Like I had tossed, passed out

Been suctioned

Gasped air again

Awakened startling myself

That I Maby

Just mayby I

Had gone, returned Maby came went returned

Then back here

To stay a bit longer

Turning my head toward the young fella

Holding the surprising 4 blood bags pole beside my head

I said,

“I don’t think I’m gonna make it?”

His simple young competent reply,

“You did!”

“”Yes I did!”

Here today

Gone tomorrow

Back to stay

Stay a little longer

“Neither the day nor the hour

Is yours to know”

So

🎶Kick off your shoes

stay a little longer

Dance a little longer🎶

tom tenbrunsel

Carl Sandburg Writer/Poet/Philosopher 2023