Motel Surgery

Motel surgery
blood spattered dreams
razor sharp implements and a bathtub of ice

Keep walking backwards through life
so you can see what it is that you left behind

Liver transplants
kidneys on ice
best western bypass 50cc morphine dreams

Clamped aorta
forceps white sheets
scalpel suture
I have my souvenir
despondent dreams lurk in the back of my head
places I've been
things I've said
familiar faces left for dead
stealing pieces of someone else's life
destiny is hard to find with one good eye and both hands tied