Stanislavsky's Unit--By Lois Greene Stone--United States

Stanislavsky's Unit

Oxygen tubes tickled tiny

hairs in my nostrils.

Monitored leads left doodle

lines on the overhead scope.

I stared at circular tracks

in the ceiling thinking they

looked like toy train rails,

only upside down.  Life doesn't

flash through the mind while

irregular beats blip on

rhythm strips; soap-opera

scene starring me is what my

brain believed.

(Previously published in 1988, The Writer, Inc.)

Lois Greene Stone, writer and poet, has been syndicated worldwide. Poetry and personal essays have been included in hard & softcover book anthologies. Collections of her personal items/ photos/ memorabilia are in major museums including twelve different divisions of The Smithsonian.