Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Patient Intake: Mis'ries - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com 

https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

Patient Intake: Mis’ries

 

When I was a young LVN I didn’t understand

Mis’ries as a complaint or a diagnosis

From Viet-Nam I well knew GSW

Pneumothorax, traumatic amputation

 

But in the civilian ER I met old people

And when I asked what was wrong they said

Mis’ries, you know; I got me my mis’ries

Doctor Junior, he’ll know what I mean

 

It isn’t in the texts, but now that I’m old

I know about all about th’ mis’ries myself

 

(I was the first male LVN I ever knew)

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