A Short Stay at Hospital

They stole my flesh,

granted it was trying

to murder me.

And I know who did it.

I saw his face 

with a smile like

a vandalized graveyard.

With thick-thumbed hands

bound up in 

finger condoms.

Not the woman with the red

lips

heels

and tight white skirt 

clingling across her a*s.

It was that 

man

who shoved his arm into my gut.

Congratulations, he said

Its a beautiful baby.

It wasn't 

It was my ruptured 

appendix.