HOSPITAL ME

who's that joker
walking
the corridors
with
his
shuffleboots
and
bald
potatohead
blurting
blunt
warped
smalltalk to nervous automated laugh replies?

that joker - the 40 year old underachiever
with
bicyclemud
smeared
on
his
chin
chewing nicotine and biting pens
and scribbling in a pocket bent pad

and
rubbing his scalp in the stairwell
and
pounding his temples in the tearoom
as
if
to
kickstart his mind
and
put
some
reallight
in 
his
sleepdull
manson
lamps