I Went to the Hospital

I dare not cough

Nor breathe deep

There’s been a pain in my chest for nearly a week

I want to be famous for falling in love

I went to the hospital

They put me in a bed

Because I always do

What my mother says

Why should

I lie About results of a test?

I may soon be gone

To pluck on a harp

Like those colored pencil portraits of dogs

We saw on a blue tarp

But I spotted a damsel if memory serves

I went to the hospital

They put me in a bed

I always do what my mother says

Why should

I lie about results of a test?

So. Who is your provider?

Uh. Where’d you get that bread?

Is it dying that terrified you?

Or Just being dead?

We are living in an era of kings

I went to the hospital

They put me in a bed

I always do what my mother says

Why should

I lie about results of a test?