Capricious: quicksilver light -- stream
_____flows East. Idling
cars bumper to bumper on the I-5:
_____strained faces stare North.
A man stands astride the meridian. He shouts
_____until he is hoarse. He's a prophet
in this age of diagnosis, of explanation.
_____Labels and pills. Charts
some overworked nurse in blue scrubs
_____spills, sheet by sheet (each
bears crabbed notes someone crammed like commuters
_____on a Shibuya-bound train.)
Pulse steady, blood pressure nothing to worry about,
_____but keep an eye on it. A beep, beep, beep
you could set your watch to,
_____if you still owned one.
These days you tell time by your iPhone
_____(call it European, not military.)
Only the patients in the intensive care unit
_____seem remotely sane.
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