Saturday, July 1, 2023

Medicare A and B

i get about fifty calls
a day
from some dude
or girl
in India asking me if i have
Medicare A and B.
they sound
young.
in their twenties, on the phone
all day
calling baby boomers
in America,
trying to steal
their information, their
identities
and all the rest.
they want to send back
braces,
knee braces,
they have a new plastic
card for you,
do you have diabetes?
cancer,
are you in a home under a
nurses care.
do you make your own
decisions.
do you have a checking account,
a savings account?
do you smoke, do you have
any diseases
that are gong to kill you soon?
what's your address,
your name, your age,
your height and weight?
what's your social security number,
your Medicare number?
i'll wait while you go find it,
they say.
in the background
i hear a hundred other voices,
chattering on the phones
in some hellish cave,
asking the same
questions over and over again,
and sometimes i'll hear a rooster
crowing, a cow mooing,
or a goat bay.

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