Poem: Lesson

This is an edit of a poem I wrote a while back. The earlier version is in the archives of this blog.

Lesson

The nurses here wear make-up
and all the doctors are available
Patients seize, swimming up from their beds
You wonder if they, too, have a crush on the intern

Learn medicine from your couch
Pay TIVO tuition, watching thrice married
surgeons save their ex-wife's ex-husband in time
for Southpark, another Great American Show, at 10

You can be a doctor too, you think
as the patient waits patiently on the screen
The only motion in the room: the buzzing of the lights
the sterile surfaces staring back