Someone Somewhere Said
Talking on the local BBC radio station about the failure if the NHS to meet the number crunching dead lines. (Pardon the dead expression) Of course life has a lot of numbers involved in it. But without life numbers would be immaterial would not they? But this page is for poetry.
Someone, somewhere, said!
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet
Some person thirteen years ago!
For treatment of the sick you know.
Said what? I do not know as was not there!
Of course treatment of numbers was there!
So what did that person say?
In telling you, should I delay?
Was that person sitting at a desk?
With numbers on paper no less.
Was his desk in a mess?
Did he/she think, ‘what shall I do? I know!’
To make these numbers quickly go.
I’ll make other numbers work so fast.
My desk will be tidy at last!
Did he/she not really realise.
People were those numbers before his/her eyes.
And some of those numbers were people oh so sick.
Dedicated nursing numbered people, could not deal with those sick numbers quick! (Phew!)
Not clock watchers were those dedicated numbered women and men.
They just wanted those sick numbers healthy again.
As they all knew those numbers in front of them.
Were people, you and me, not just numbers from someone’s pen.
Copyright © Stanley Harris | Year Posted 2017
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