After telling another person In their twenties

That vague abdominal pain Was metastatic cancer

I turned to Craiglist’s

Pet section

Iguana for pick up in Belltown

Three for one dwarf bunnies in Woodinville I don’t even like cats

But there were all three pounds of her

In a Simba pose

What a deal, really

An alarm clock, furniture rearranger And serotonin modulator

In one long-haired, chirping

(Are they supposed to chirp?)

Package

Poet’s Statement

This poem was inspired by the mixture of an off-service emergency medicine rotation my intern year, a string of night shifts, and the kitten adoption that resulted (and has lasted).