Words

I am 64
In hospital
Recovering
After a heart
Failure congestive
Followed by a triple bypass
Then a massive cardiac arrest in
The ICU and being dead for
Seven minutes so each
Day a tall unsmiling
Nurse enters my
Room carrying
A tray of pills
She presses
To my achy
Chest to
Ask me
Which
Pill is
The ACE
Inhibitor which
The beta blocker and
So on so one day she points
To the tray and asks me what is
The most important thing to
Which I reply, the next
Words to come out
Of your mouth
Ma’am.
She smiles
And tells me I
Am getting better.