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Only One Patient Stays


Only One Patient Stays Earth’s heart is hurt We are stifling its circulation Her eyes look on, as doctors Deduct she’s going blind, she needs medicine They can’t see her future She is still a phenomenon Drastic how your prominence is overlooked Benefits taken from you Cases of fat cat’s wallets Fill as they hurt you, take away your rainforests This is pharmacology, they gave you prescriptions Low doses not to kill, not to heal, but for your return A diagnosis of slow but steady sickness She needs us to Talk to her, touch her, listen to her Real therapy You ask her for a urine test You gave her the drugs! This is murder in the first degree!
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