The Carriage Town Clinic

Wet paint, cold tiles, white bed, bright fluorescent lights like

Diamonds. like scalpels. like the doctors in the hallway

There. my keeper in his white coat at the doorway. my little clear plastic cup.

Look at the faces. look at the faces as they walk down the hall

To the small common room. look at alex in his bathrobe, crying

And rocking back and forth on the ground. he's crazy. fucking

Batshit. but he's alright in small doses. my fingers now trembling like earthquakes.

Now the people start appearing and the room starts filling with

Flies that blot out the diamonds on the ceiling. and the walls

All breaking. their mouths now gnashing, biting, and screaming.

Thick flesh in their mouths coming out without a sound.

My keeper in his white coat at the doorway. my little clear

Plastic cup. he asks me with a smile, “what's the score today,

Champ?” before the lights go out at night. my people are coming

To get me. my people will come to release me.