For smoking a cigarette
too much around my house,
my lungs collapsed
and now I need my parents
to carry me around town.
I don't need any help,
I can move on my own.
I don't need to apply for a job,
nobody's hiring.
Neither whippings
nor an electroshock weapon
can make me move.
If I fall, I won't get up.
The coughing is getting worse.
Blood spills
and I'm forced to lie still.
Maybe I could apply
to the hospital
as a living patient.
David Hernandez