I love this job

In case you didn't know this, my work schedule generally ends up revolving around my health care issues. This week is no exception. I can't think of another job where I can report my schedule for the week in verse..

My Schedule
(in honor of read around week)
By Katie Ford Hall

Coming in
Tuesday --
sweaty from
aerobics, about
11 to 2.

Wednesday --
10 A.M,
hospital, nuclear
medicine:
injected
once,

wait

then again
with radioactive
materials kept in
under lock
and key
in a titanium
jar

(terrorist deterrent,
I suppose)

wait

then
lie still for 30
minutes
under dim lights and
the hum and clicks
of a bronze
alien.

Multi
Gated
Acquisition
Scan

Check for
heart damage
every three
months.

I'll glow
my way
in
after;
to the
steady
rhythm like tires
driving on
over a bridge
on a warm
summer night

thump-thump
thump-thump.