Struggling day by day

Watching the news

Trying to decide if today is the day

To see a doctor, or buy food

Fill a prescription, or your tank

See a dentist, or pay rent

 

Day by day, it gets worse

You find a lump

You break a tooth

You reach for that empty inhaler

Your chest hurts

And you know

 

In this First World country

You have been found wanting

Your trial long over

 

Your sentence: Death

 

Execution: To Be Determined