Jacob Lawrence, Surgery, Harlem Hospital (1953)
July 4, 2004:
Rhythm, and the trend to panic.
A slow beat, steady, sustained. Soothing. Could almost sleep.
Faster pulses, or unpredictable ones. Alarming. Breathing becomes
shallow and you fight the compulsion to thrash.
It would be a good time to get me out of here now. It would be a
good time now. It would be good.