The D Spot

Marrow red and thick and I watched as the
long needle went in slowly slowly
metal to bone.
With a struggle the bone breaks off
a small bit to the catheter, the tweezers, the lab…
all your cells contained here in this little vial
these small tubes.
Mysteries will unravel with the unravelling of
marrow
and bone.
In a lab somewhere hundreds of miles away
some namelss tech in a white coat and gloves
will probe you for secrets
expose your health
or illness.
That tech holds in their hands our happiness
all in that one little vial
and the couple of tubes.
But here and now,
you relax,
floating on the fentanyl-induced high
and flipping channels, unconcerned.