Clean
1 min readApr 7, 2020
This hospital is my life
But my life
These days is at stake
Can’t get a break
My shift that starts at eight
Ends at eight
The guy who used to do it
Won’t do it
I have a family, he said
So do I, I said
Former presidential speechwriter, still a musician; owns a bakery, loves her dog. Tries to write more prose than poetry. Filipina from Manila.