NORMAL SERVICE HAS BEEN RESUMED

 

Now I’ve had my sight restored

Thanks to the surgeon’s precision

I finally appreciate the worth

Of TV in High Definition

After spending so many years

Watching TV in Monet vision

NHS CUT BACKS # 9

The NHS has plans to save money

But it is unclear who will oppose the plans

Radiologists can see through them

But the Surgeons just washed their hands

Hospital managers had a meeting and claimed

It will be a steep learning curve

While the Urologists wet themselves.

And the Neurologists lost their nerve

HOSPITAL CANTEEN

 

I’m sat in the hospital canteen

Where all of life can be seen

I look at people around me

With coffee’s or cups of tea

A couple are sharing a laugh

Are they visitors or staff?

A man sits staring into space

Red eyes in a tired drawn face

Is someone that he cares for

No longer with us anymore

Someone close to death or dead

Or worse terminally ill instead

Maybe he’s visiting a survivor

Or a new mum on the top floor

A lot of staff use the facilities

Doctors’ nurses or ancillaries

Is this a fresh day beginning?

Or a long night shift ending

There’s an outpatient I can see

Could be for x-ray physio or ENT

Two security men both partake

Drinking coffee and eating cake

A young paramedic wander’s in

Buys a coffee and is gone again

Tables clear and are then refilled

By a group of men who build

So why am I sat here observing?

Its what I do when I’m not serving