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County Prisoners Observed on the 11th Floor Cancer Ward

Mike Wilson

two sad men in blue gowns

 

armed guards on either side

 

walk the hospital hallway in shackles

 

rolling IVs in front of them

 

their very lives a rap sheet proving

 

mortality interrupts

 

every criminal enterprise

 

each of us sentenced to time served


Mike Wilson’s work has appeared in many magazines, including The Phare, and in Mike’s book, Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic. His awards include the League of Minnesota Poets Award, the Maine Poets Society Award, and the Chaffin/Kash Prize of the Kentucky State Poetry Society. He resides in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.

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