Just Passing Through

Kidney stones doing war dance

shooting daggers into left flank

popcorn pain dots my innards

cartwheels against my spine

I quiver and quail trying to hide

morphine hustles through my veins

this kind of stoned feels much better

as much as I want and I want plenty

needle huge, feels at least foot long

plunged relentlessly into my butt

sadistic nurses or so they seem

but I soon go into la la land

I wake up, screaming with distress

begin to vomit, aim toward evil nurse

worst of all, I was six months pregnant!