..oh yeah, i'm in school.

there is nothing like a new semester to sap my recently acquired creative musical momentum. it is a bit depressing to realize that my new taskmasters go by the names "accounting principles for healthcare" and "advanced health systems". on the other hand, perhaps it will be a good exercise in time management and discipline.

i gotta say though, working night shift has really done a number on my body and soul. last night i knew i was desperately in need of sleep, but laid awake until almost 3 am, my confused brain and reluctant body at war with one another.

on the last night of my last stint of shifts at the hospital, 7 level 1 traumas came through the door all at once. in short: all seven of these guys & girls had gotten in a gang fight at a party and someone had a knife and stabbed all of them in life-threatening areas of the body (stomach, chest, neck, head). we have a total of 2 beds in the ER set apart for trauma...needless to say the scene was reminiscent of a bloody war sequence (think anything Mel Gibson). none of them were over age 20. that was intense. i don't know how many lived or died...i can only hope and pray that they won't take revenge, but i fear i hope in vain. none of them said anything to the police, meaning they don't want the perpetrators to be arrested.....so THEY can kill them.

may i never be numbed, calloused
to the weight these children bear

blood spills on the sidewalks
this is the only justice they know

may i be a brief lull
from the squalls of the streets

i say to the darkness
you may not live here


peace.