In Need of Social Medicine
the old man sees a doctor:
I am sick
I am not sick
I am old…
how are you sick?
the doctor asks
see? why should I come
if I knew how I’m sick?
no seer asks the what or the how
I am sick
she knows it:
she tells what rituals to do
and to heal fast and last
I’d rather see a seer
and go home
and stretch my legs
to my coffin length…
he staggers to walk out
turns to the doctor
speaks to the patients
in the waiting room:
dead
or
dying
I am as alive
as many of the living!
Copyright © Assefa Dibaba | Year Posted 2015
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