Iron Lung

Love is the supreme farce. What a fucking joke Life is a lurching seething entity engulfing all Sex is a repulsive bi-product of boredom Life is a farce. Sex is a farce. Love is a farce A repulsive farce 

too much oxygen in the bloodstream metabolism affected. grossly underweight. bottom 10%. open heart surgery on a fucking baby. 

Casts for legs. Bar connecting at ankle level. Keep toes pointed out. Prevents femur movement. Cast retards the movement of legs that want to run. Casts stripped the freedom of legs that want to run. 

Mercury vapor lamp is rich in ultraviolet. Why are these rays beneficial to health? 

scientists and profiteers are stalling conditions. drinkers and emersons are stalling conditions. as technology advances. 

The experiment begins. Drain the blood. Re-animated heart Simulated blood flow. Re-animated lung. Artificial oxygen A ghoulish design. Autojector. Walking death. Waking limbs Walking death. Autojector. Willed to live Carries out the functions of the heart and...

Lights gyrate in perfect waves. Scanning your brainwaves. Monitors lungs, blood flow, heartworks, painwaves, life, body enclosing. Wrapped upinside. Not the windows, ports, and boxes put up there by the doctors for me. Case for batteries, external energy. 

I feel you inside me. Cold. Ruthless. I feel you eating me Raw. Lifeless. You will strike me down without hate Without anger. Like a butcher. Like a surgeon. Cold Ruthless. Cancer. You will strike me down without fear Without remorse. Like an animal devouring...

put light cylinder oil in the four joints of operating lever. check gear reduction unit once a year filling with 600w mobile oil. wipe leather diaphragm inside and out once a year. 

burning or branding iron. to burn with a hot iron or needle or with a caustic substance so as to destroy dead or unwanted tissue. prevent the spread of infection. cauterization. 

Swiss tested v-shaped valve (guillotine) revolutionized mechanical breathing. Every fifth breath is a cleansing breath. 80c 20m 1980. 

food or vomit aspirated. serious ulcers lacerated. complications may arise when the patient is immobilized. complications may arise when the patient is placed inside the device. 

infantile respirators increased the chance of their survival. IRON LUNGS for all the children stricken by the crippling curse. then the vaccines condemned the machine that prolonged the lives of children. 

I am germs. I kill man. Man will try to live on and will fail. 

(stage 1) The skin is red. does not return. not normal. relief of pressure. (stage 2) Skin is blistered, peeling, cracked. damage is still minor. (stage 3) skin may be damaged. drainage. it may be seen. (stage 4) Deep crater-like ulcers, full thi...

Semiconscious. Unable to speak. Tubes… One in the nose. One in the neck Elegance and beauty are replaced by palsy and torpor On fire with pain. Throat muscles rendered useless Her long slender neck is marred by a raw sunken hole A metal fixture holding a rubbe...

focal segmental glomerular sclerosis. inability to process proteins. fluid retention and great swelling. damaged glomerulus waste products in my blood. diurectics excrete excess salt and water. use prednisone to destroy infection. 

Violence and depression make for future corpses Disease, disease Power through fear makes for future corpses Limbs burn with disease, disease Or do they? It could be lies they told you to keep you down Controlled So you know. You’ll still die but you can go ou...

Don’t let me die here. Don’t let me die alone No one will help me with my plan Just let me die here. Last thing I ask you Put me down like a rabid dog 

"... and this came from the understanding that people want a normal LIFE." "... and just being alive is not good enough." an artificial heart intended to last a LIFEtime 

She is gone now. She won’t be back. Won’t touch the button Wont shed a tear. Watch the clock. Count the hours Quietly waiting. Quietly dying ‘till it’s time to ignite Leave as ashes 

Every night I sleep in a room where somebody died I live in a fucking tomb where everybody lies Why? Why am I so lucky? They said I wouldn’t catch it. They are liars They don’t know. There was no escape There was nothing I could do. I do what they said I staye...

when confined to a respiration device, one tends to question the worth of LIFE. should I breathe and suffer or rest in DEATH? DEATH. now I wait. patience. 

Eating has its appeal now that my bowels No longer handle waste easily This human machine is fucking 

Lassitude and fever. Strictly routine in these cases Curl into a fetal position. Expose the spine Needle through the skin. Draw out the fluid Analysis complete. Life with polio. No hope Six days at best. Death will come soon 

manufactured DEATH compartment. manufactured DEATH compartment. custom made for the patient. manufactured LIFE depression. 

In the fields of pointless military conflict Runs a man armed with needles and gauze No bombs of death or guns of destruction Just skills and tools to make men live long enough Constant triage Crawling from corpse to corpse His work is never ending Amidst the...

There is no room inside. There is no waste inside. Only lungs and regret. Remove both limbs. Discard waste. Modified for arm abduction. Modified for waste reduction. 

For use with patients who have no power. mullikins can travel with you, the portable type of IRON LUNG. wear the chest plate,snap the hose in and move with pride. passengers with polio no longer bed ridden. wear your shiny IRON LUNG. be the envy of their eyes....

40 years in an IRON LUNG. at least the neckbrace prevents him from seeing his withered, fucked up body. the only way he can cope with the pain is by pouring out paralyzed words. pain and suffering turned to poetry. 

It was a simple operation Pig hands botch and fail I remain a mangled form of one already flawed A mask will not hide you And latex will not cover… Pig hands use dull blades and dirty tools Disappointed, deformed, disfigured grotesque 

Second rib. Second interspace. Sternal angle. Suprasternal notch. Seventh rib. Seventh interspace. No normal waveform. Third lateral line. Detection device for abnormal electric impulses through the muscle. Placement. Pattern. Figure. Form. ECG. Landmark. L...

Do you want to know how they decide Who gets cured and who gets killed Money. Fame. Power. Beauty. A good citizen is guaranteed an out While deviants fester in the final solution Warm springs was a welcome relief But they made it WHITES ONLY While the “others”...

"Dead Weight" safety valve. Face mask diaphragm. Full weight cut in half. Air tank holding back. Blank stare. Dream of death, a quick death. Time stands still. Expirate. Air hangs stale. 

Negative pressure destroying//rebuilding Positive pressure destroying//rebuilding There is so much pressure in this fucking machine Devices devised to sustain my depressing life So much trouble just to keep the family pleased He’s alive. He’s okay. Too much pr...

Foetal enlightenment. Release, in a form of tearfall, the repressed sufferings from before and during birth This is vital. Now you understand LIFE and emotion. 

turn band wheel to right too increase the rate of respiration. changing respiration rate. turn left to decrease the rate. 

Plug me into electrode time span. Alternating currents, suctioned to my skin. Green and yellow wires bursting out of them. Hit the switch. Turn me on. Tune me up. Generate, regenerate. 

Marching through the doldrums We are no sex Featureless, futureless we exist Scraping through the tasks Such a hateful noise The scraping of machines Working in unison and weeping on alone No sex, no sex. Sexless, no sex We are no sex. Sexless, no sex Just dea...

Painful outbreak along my side. painful blisters rapidly appear. virus stays dormant along the spinal cord in the nerve root. herpes roster now becomes active. 

Skills. Scalpels and sweat all you need are these Three things to become a success. Sliced. Fatal Failure a promising career fades. No room for weakness Trembling hands barely force the last blade in 

Zero one zero six one eight seven five. Positive pressure breathing attachment. Spirophore wooden lung breathing for me. Positive pressure breathing attachment. Spirophore wooden lung breathing for you. 

Stone hands are pain. Pain. Excruciating pain Some days are better than others Today is no good. I want to but I cant I would caress but stone hands are in tense pain 

Sealed and sterile. Wrapped in gauze. Sleep becomes eternal. Cold and numb. Slow down heart rate. Close to death. Custom-formed chamber. Air-tight tube. There are rules. 1 through 10. Procedures of occult science. There is no turning back. 1 through 10. Mor...

stricken. paradise lost to polio. friends are gone. the curse of LIFE in an IRON LUNG. everyone forgets you're alive. die alone and in pain. 

54 years old, 51 interred. longest living victim, she remains thankful. confinement to the massive respirator bulbo-spinal polio. "I've had a good LIFE" 

One man in charge of the corpse. Calloused hands from shovel handles He built this tomb alone. “No one came to see him buried A talented doctor and skilled engineer He built machines that saved lives. They kept people breathing”. All good deeds so unnoticed. T...

Unbearable heat. Bedsores. Shitstained pants Loneliness. I have dreams of upright sex My body is stiff like coma sleep I’ve reached the breaking point. Unplug. Die.