I GOT A NEW JOB BILLING PATIENTS AT A HOSPITAL

Do I find it - Evil?
Well give me a second,
jesus, I’ve only been here
a month, not long enough
to catch Lucifer at the water cooler.
He’s a coffee kind of guy, besides;

gave me The Eye Twitch
at the last place, shut my eye
When I got no shut eye (ha)
for two years,
and I didn’t want those numbered nightmares
anyway, but my skin looked like shit.

So mea culpa or whatever
if I like this industry cousin who lets me sleep -
who doesn’t parade summer northern lights
above intestines twisting
like a colicking horse biting its blanketed
belly with no one to walk it until the pain
ebbs and the telly-cord-stomach
unwinds.

I think I got lucky with Lucy.
Few find Him in His macro
mood, His Being humid
but, with His gaze elsewhere (on you, sorry),
I shed layers and god
it feels good.

Don’t get me wrong, no one escapes the gulf air -
the atmospheric rug of His System
which I only perceived now and then (sweltered in coats as I was).
I could try and measure it now in my increasing bareness, but you’re braver
than me to ask this when you are where I was -
Do I find it Evil?

I’m not better yet but
maybe I will, and
I hope I do.

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Taryn Thomas, 25, Kansas City - USA ✯ taryngthomas98@gmail.com

"Taryn Thomas used to work in public accounting until she got a new job. She now enjoys riding horses, playing piano, running, reading, writing, and sleeping."