They scanned the bar code
on my plastic bracelet
as if I was some sort of item
on a conveyer belt.
Then passed me through a line
of patients and shoved pills
down our throats.
Some cause shaking,
some side affects-unaware.
The doctor never spoke of them
the nurses never tell.
Left this hospital uncured
and landed in another
where the doctor actually
looked me in the eye,
instead of staring
at a sheet of paper.
