Time Nursing Poems

Naomi has seen this sight many times before 
She knows Mrs. Bee will be gone in two days
If not before

She makes her as comfortable as...

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I think it’s nice that people send each other friendly cards, or simply call on birthdays…or for Christmas…or Thanksgiving. 
And I’m so glad…when someone feels...

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Writing yet another note to my straight white CongressMan,
asking him to Please, Do Panic
about all this fear-based non-legislation
undemocratic fascist 
nationalistic Win/Lose evolutionary corrupt
democratic devolution
going on...

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First night in his final place
My dad called me weeping
“Please Bobby bring me home.”

His skin like ice cream
Melting on handle bars
Plopped in his wheelchair
Square
In the...

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Apple blossom boogie
Whoopee Whoop Whoop
Double time and triple time
Have some vegetable soup

Fats Dominoes in the hallway
Shuffleboard too
Twist with Chubby Checkers
Add morphine to my stew

I’m catching...

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In the multi-racial nursing home
to bent and broken bodies
in broken bent back wheelchairs
longing to free roam,
said the black lives matter rapper:

When your woman leaves you,
and...

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Life Spent - All Alone


When I spend time at the old nursing home
     to see a loved one in our family,
it...

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Discarded souls in the hall,
No one comes to visit, no one calls.
Heads hanging with hearts of grief,
Waiting for their end and God’s relief,
What happened to...

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some or very old
there  no longer gold
no lie
just there to die
its at  time treated unkind
and misuesd
its the
NURSING HOME BLUES...

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As he sits in the chair, towards the floor is his gaze,
fleeting memories wash over him but his mind is a haze.
The nurse flashes by...

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In Nursing School

In nursing school they have us learn all the proper medical words,
Because in Greek and Latin we defecate, but we never make turds,
And...

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        Nursing Care
	Written: by Tom Wright 
	Jan. 9, 1998
	
	Beneath this metal awning,
	now old and bent we sit.
	Some just...

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Hey man, let's stop by the drive through nursing home. 

'Okay.' 

I pulled up to the menu 

'Uh, I'll have a septuagenarian widower whose hobbies...

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A drunkard hit her before he crashed.
She lay thirty minutes on blood-soaked dirt.
He staggered away; wasn't hurt.
Her lovely neck was broken; her brain-case smashed.

red lights,...

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