If it ain’t the truth, Tuttles and Buttles in the movie Brazil, <br />One miss type can leave you dead, one wrong keying could spell your demise, <br />One incorrect number on your Social Security Number, <br />Could possibly render you non-existent. <br />That is the nightmare Laura Todd had to seal with for eight years. <br /> <br />“I don’t think people realize how difficult it is to be dead <br />When you’re not, ” she said. <br /> <br />The IRS has to be convinced that she is alive, <br />She has regain her identity, <br />Because otherwise, <br />She will lose her sanity. <br />On the other hand, <br />My mom died, literally. <br />She was supposed to a have an outpatient surgery on her gall bladder, <br />I drove to St. John’s Hospital in Detroit, <br />Located on Moross and Mack, the Upper East Side, <br />She died because of surgical miscues, <br />Besides her dying in the hospice room at St. John’s that didn’t matter. <br />My siblings and I buried her at Mt. Olivet cemetery. <br />But yet she received a questionnaire; <br />Asking her to rate the hospital stay which she encountered. <br />Food, (though she was intubated for three days) <br />The room temperature, (she had a 104-5 fever everyday) , <br />Among other moot questions. <br />Someone sent her this questionnaire as if she was discharged, <br />Discharged for life? <br />It is kind of odd, <br />That my mom was the reciprocal for Laura Todd, <br />Laura has to prove that she is alive and well, <br />On the other hand, furthermore <br />My mom had to prove that she was dead by proxy. <br />1984 is not a fictional book anymore. <br />It is not case for Orwellian it’s the case for Ordeadian. <br /> <br />(2-21-2008)<br /><br />Joe Rosochacki<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/being-declared-dead-can-ruin-your-health/
