Creepy Crawlies

 
Sometimes our patient's were seeing bugs (common with alcohol delirium) and sometimes the creepy crawlies were real. And of course the worse situation was when the admitted individual, brought along their own personal infestation. Yuck!

Creepy Crawlies

We had an attack
Of creepy crawlies,
Worse than any of
Sigmund’s follies.

Scooting around
So low to the ground,
Favoring darkness
Without people around.

Sneaking through cracks
Keeping close to the walls,
I did the squish’em dance
In my coveralls.

Little black ants
Crawling on the sheet,
In ICU-7
Well, that’s hard to beat;
But it was an old hospital
Down on Engle Road,
Shuttered twenty years ago
That healthcare abode.