Your softly ruled hospice

Your softly ruled hospice
is equally about visitants
becoming accustomed to

endings as those bedded
there [before reckonings
under time’s imminence]

so declare what’s unsaid –
Boredom persists [just as
it does outside where we

cling to our endless lives]
as mindless TV streams in
lounges of wipeable faces

[vinyl & skin] – Your carers
tolerate baby blue masks –
you’ll see no smiles again