Health Elephant Poems

my long grey trunk
and thick greying skin
is finally
wearing thin

nobody talks to me
and so what
if I whispered
from the rooftops

despite being repeatedly
murdered
I can clear a room
in seconds

I...

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Once upon eternal time,
all philosophers
and theologians
and ecologists,
published and unpublished,
credentialed and indigenous,
elders and children
and all ages in-between,
alive and dead
and all health indicators in-between,
got together
to sort out...

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To my right, to my left,
the elephant in the room,
locking eyes, straight ahead,
doom...
   doom...
      doom.

A thousand spirits proclaimed...

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Attention all voters
Who love a great scam
The Republican Party
Now welcomes flimflam

Republican healthcare
Fell apart at the seams
Through an absence of facts
And a surplus of dreams

Republican planning
Takes...

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Depression is killing more than ever, yet remains the largest elephant in the room
Mental health has a stigma attached to it
People are scared to get...

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My name is Bond, Els Bond, and I live in Africa where I was born and belong.
On my continent, I do not work solo –...

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