"Hospital Ward #7"
By
Alex Galper


Hospital Ward #7

Roaming planet Earth is the pale-blue AIDS
This gray-haired dude is a Wondering Jew
A raft floats down the river to flowers & the sun
But in the corner a bitch-bisector beats some poor dot numb.
Meanwhile, grasshoppers are green & heading East
And sleek superintendents are jumping ahead
Airplanes drop the bombs and go South
Newspapers spit out the yellow lies like mad
Soldiers are marching & screaming "Hurray!"
The West coughs up the dawn of the new day
My pencil got tired and broke
And I can no longer play...

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I will enter History
Riding on shoulders of aging Latino prostitutes
Who fake hot gasps of love
Spitting out New York tuberculosis
With their weak southern lungs.

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Civilization is doomed by masturbators
Who were thrown out of the time machine
And broke their skulls
Against the splendid women breasts