my grandmother has heart-attacks (10/30)

God Bless my grandmother
She still believes in America
As She struggles to the door
Her heavy fingers rummage for doorknobs
Her American flag blows proudly on the other side of the door
Her health has gone with the wind like Margaret Mitchell

Her health has gone down the drain with the American health care system
If there ever was such a thing

She cannot see a thing
There is no one home
Who will save her?
It won’t be Uncle Sam or Nancy Pelosi
So why does she pay so much taxes?

God Bless my grandmother
She still believes in America
As Life sprawls across white tiles onto the kitchen floor right before her tiny blood bead eyes
As Tears spring from sockets like Hiroshima rockets
She cries political cries

Devil pulls heart into throat then swings life above head like pendulums
She cannot afford life so she bargains with death
Too many brushes with death
She’s had
every week at the Walgreens pharmaceutical counter
Do I choose rent or hypertension pills
That is the question

God Bless my grandmother
She still believes in America
As Horsepower heartbeats ride her into purgatory
As Her heart gnaws at her insides
All she feels is the shallow tunnel of death collapsing onto her American Dreams
In God we trust will be etched onto her dilated pupils

God wants to take her back
And America too
He can feel their heart beat through the flesh on the palm of his hands
He is calling her
He is calling them
But she refuses to let go of everything she’s ever believed in
She held on to see this bill pass

God Bless my grandmother
She still believes in America
And it’s deafening heart murmur that somehow strikes fear into the hearts of every other developed nation on the globe who ironically all have national healthcare systems
Why should they be afraid of us when we’re all just busy dying
In million dollar hospital beds
While we watch house
Ironic huh

God Bless my grandmother
She still believes in America
After her third heart attack
She could never afford her heart pills
And neither could the US govt.
She held on to see this bill pass
Along with the 46 million American people who were uninsured last year
all the people with “pre-existing” conditions like AIDS, cancer, and heart disease
Who were denied healthcare, legally
For the people by the people my ass
That is until now

God Bless America, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi,
the 18,000 people who’ve died annually because they couldn’t afford healthcare in their own country
A nation who’d rather fund cover ups than health centers

There is a beam of hope
Finally

God Bless my grandmother
She still believes in America
No wonder why she’s had three heart attacks