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Broken-Down Oz
Next time you're on an examining table,
count the cracks on the ceiling
to see where that dingy yellow brick road
sweeps you away. Where Toto's barks
lead you to a wizard who wears a poker hat,
tipping it down to you.
The witch ( playing doctor games ) whispers
flying monkey nonsense in your ear
and a munchkin nurse comes in,
groping your breast for more lumps.
The gruff orderly takes your pulse
and casting his scarecrow shadow over you,
almost reading your frightened baby blue
Dorothy eyes like a book.
He wasn't that literate,
he pierced a needle into your arm
and those thoughts of him being a good witch
or a bad witch are lost.
Your mind becomes a huge hot-air balloon,
high in the sky from this magic land
and drifting back to Kansas
without you.
You can't click those ruby slippers:
cheap movie props fall apart fast
when they're bought for a buck.
They won't stop the house
plummeting on your hope when you heard
before the nurses and doctors talk
about your cancer,
eating away at your breasts.
You are a mewling cowardly Lion
as a doctor takes a knife to your bosom,
cutting them off. It is only then in the night
when the Snap-a-de-snap--
of the lung apparatus hides your sobs,
no Lollipop Guild can take away that charcoal taste.
Even when you wake up in the morning
with hostility casting your heart into iron
when looking at your reflection--
chest caving inward and bald-headed.
You feel like a rusted Tin-man,
but the only sex now he ever got is a 1-800 hotline.
The Emerald City in your vision has dimmed
and the wizard had a drawl at his poker game,
bidding you a good-day.
Leaving you alone
on those piss-colored stones
in the ******** of Oz.
- by iAethereality |
- Poetry And Lyrics
- | Submitted on 06/15/2009 |
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- Title: Broken-Down Oz
- Artist: iAethereality
- Description: Poem of Breast Cancer, personal to me. Pray for those who struggle through it. Leave honest feedback.
- Date: 06/15/2009
- Tags: brokendown
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Comments (4 Comments)
- UC Poika - 10/07/2009
- I like it as a narrative but as a poem... idk. It sounds real. Is it?
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- 100Arceuslover - 09/20/2009
- It's left me speechless... it's so good. I like how it to relates to the wizard of oz too. 5/5
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- 4ever_lost in_ ur eyes - 06/15/2009
- ...thats deep. Its really good. It makes me think olf all those people out there going through this, and their perspective on the issue. It really touches the heart. Thank you for sharing. Keep up the good work. 5/5
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