Unfortuntate Waiting Room At Urgent Care Poem by Joe Kelley

Hands rub one and other

Waiting for bad news.

Silent movements,

Mouths chewing away

Tearing at a calloused cheek.

One smiles at relief

News postponing the inevitable.

Lying to relatives

To save one big secret.

Knuckles popping

Heads nodding off,

A sister whispers

Her old mother coughs.

This is a human chop shop.

Somethings wrong,

'We'll get you a shot'.

A pyramid of disaster

Clarification of emergency.

A broken arm

Beats a crushed nose.

Aching stomach

Takes it all.

Cancer,

Ankle,

And broken heart.