Essays, Art and Plays by Dan

So far, I have been to hospital emergency rooms 3 times in my life. The first time is when I broke my collarbone playing football in a cow pasture and the second time was due to a wreck when I was 17 years old and driving a delivery van when a driver collided with me who was on the wrong side of the road. The poem below is about my third visit to the ER due to a blood clot:

How they loved
my pink socks —
Emergency Room nurses