Melanie Browne- A Poem

For A Friend Who Walked Out Of The English Patient

You could have just closed

your eyes, tried a little 

transcendental meditation,

that might have hushed the noises

in your head,

a nurse that's always talking,

a burn patient with boring stories,

only Willem Dafoe is truly interesting,

an existential aside-

he's like the rabbit in Wonderland,

jumping about with fingerless gloves,

asking questions about the

state of our moral compass,

but even if meditation doesn't work for you,

there's a gory starvation scene,

people get buried alive in sand!

a plane begins to crash and burn,

dear friend where have you

buried your sympathies?

surely not with Kill Bill,

a movie with

confucious consciousness,

popping eyeballs

but no joie de vivre