Thinking of you here in this bed   This room is so cold for frozen meat   You are sleeping for hours   Getting you something for the pain   I slept maybe two hours   up for maybe twenty, up for maybe more      Curling up her in this chair, crossword puzzles and watching you lay there   Dozed off to a leonard novel   I woke to your apparatus breathing   I felt that woman hurt you      Vulnerable girl I want to protect you for once   You tongue if fumbed   Not as sharp   when she makes her paid demands      I hate hospitals for all the white and metal   Flourescent lights and hired help   Depending on you to open your eyes   Ask, "How long did it take?"       Did your mom stop by?    Isn't is scary how these same beds where people are born sometimes hold the dying?    Makes me nervous for you   Makes me nervous      Nervous walking the halls   I've seen the lobby waiters half a hundred times   The cafeteria feeds those   Nightgown-wearing I.V. walkers seem to bring me closer to my health/self      We were born in seperate beds a state away    You grew up confident   And I can't stand the smell of rubber gloves   now that it's over   when will they let you come home?