Long Head nurse Poems

" Just Checking In Today"
Modified by Franklin Price
from a posting on Facebook
My sincere gratitude to the original author, who is unknown to me
Modified 4/1/2016

A preacher passing through his church, In the middle of the day, 
Was...

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No roof no mood flat affect
Glances empty no space for sorrow
Small rucksack to collect  
No tears to borrow

A sloppy flute
A black and white photo
Of a young boy now mute 
Carpe Diem his motto

Dreamy alone...

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Off the train I hit the streets
and start laughing. This is ridiculous,
incomprehensible. How can innumerable bipeds
have individual inner lives. Why are they doing
what they’re doing? I have no answer
New York City but to also go...

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Our Felicity knows no rest and was
Often admonished by her Head Nurse.
It happened one day she was out for an errand
When a small boy was admitted to emergency.
With little thought she hurried to help,
forgetting she...

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     I am a nurse.  It is a difficult job, very stressful and emotional.  The patients need

us to be at our best.  Nurses are required to be dedicated,...

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When my nana first moved in,
I thought it would be terrible.
I figured that living with someone who has Alzheimer’s,
Would be hard to deal with.
And it is,
But not for the reason I thought it would be.
It’s...

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A young girl got the first nursing job in a private hospital
And was assigned to check the ground floor patients.
Room 1, 2, 3, as she got to room 4 the door was opened
Inside the room...

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Nurse 
  
he drinks his coffee
ran out the door
to help the docters
  on the ER floor 
  
Takes care of the sick and 
  Injured that comes in
Treat their wounds 
Also...

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A FANTASY'S FANTASY

Stay in your little fantasy world, that's just f*cking fine
just keep your little dream world out of mine
can you hear me because i've had enough of your game
and you are the only one...

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one's from japan  
  one's from ukraine
one is from turkey
  two are from spain

one speaks portuguese 
  another korean
two speak mongolian
  though none speak armenian  

one likes thick coffee
...

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IMMIGRANTS



Used  to play cards Friday evening in Dublin 
With immigrant Soviets who had come west to work..
Guy mopping the floor in  hotel café  used to be
A scientist in some Soviet space program.
Took...

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FIRST TIME EVER, I SAW SON’S FACE

From very moment he was born 
into world, with piercing cry came.
Don’t ask how when I heard him
knew life would never…be the same.

This verified by the head nurse,
“noise in...

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Nurses
So you worked as a nurse,
 where the real work is done,
where you are taking them to toilets,
and showering them some,

Where the snotty little upstarts,
New sisters on the ward,
Busy popping pills, 
Wont help you, so...

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When in that hospital bed, day after day
With all the intrusions that got in the way
One more therapist coming into my room
Or a doctor arrived spreading facts of gloom.

Tho the nurses were kind, they kept...

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