Sylvia
So, so, Herr Doktor.
So, Herr Enemy.
Am I to be your puppet,
forever dancing on stethoscope strings?
Splay me out on wax paper,
like so much frigid meat.
Poke and prod and never cure,
scribble scripts with fervor;
prescribe a pharmaceutical rainbow
spread before my breakfast plate.
I’ve grown to love that hospital smell,
my perfume;
my sickly rouge the powder from your
Latex gloves.
White coat lets you play God,
my sanity in your forceps.
Make your fine incisions, Herr Doktor.
Slice me into manageable chunks.
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