#2
Ambulance

11/16/2008

The casual indifference

of the Sunday afternoon

coffeegoers

To the sirens

of the emergency vehicles

now parked outside,

And the unhurried ambling of the men

who wheel the complex gurney/stretcher

past the open door and window

Gives me pause as I ponder

an event that would be so dire

but at the same time so relaxed.

But as the summoner

of those services walks by

with such nonchalance,

My thoughts concerning

the fleeting transience of health

wane

While a song first sung to me

by Chip and Dale plays naïvely

from the ceiling.