Self-Responsibility

Self-Responsibility

A Poem by Jo Zapata

             Self-Responsibility

 

I am coming out of my anesthesia.

 

It was so comfortable there.

I could dream what I wanted,

      but I didn’t have to carry it out.

 

I feel groggy.  Slow.  Scared.

Now I have to live. . .

 -Jo-

November 15, 1985

Minneapolis

 

© 2011 Jo Zapata


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