Jan Hansen Poet Blank verse

Coprolalia

Coprolalia 

Dr Emil at the cottage hospital had a problem
he was not aware of; he had worked in bigger hospitals
but fired for being rude to patients.
Dr Emil was a good doctor and a kind man the staff
The hospital accepted his quirks. as did the patients
and in the small town regarded as lovable eccentric.
Doing his morning round, he said to an old patient
“Does he never die, the ing old fart?”
“What is the old  over there doing in my ward.”
Chuckles from beds
Dr Emil continued like nothing had happened unaware
of what was coming out of his mouth?
One day the inspector of hospitals came around the staff
did their best to keep Emil away from her, he met her
In the hall; the greetings were pleasant until he said
she was “an out- ed old whore.”
The offended lady was not willing to forget
 Dr Emil was fired; the town lost a good man.
Our Emil got a job in Mongolia no one speaks English
It doesn’t matter what he says.

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