Short Catheter Poems

My mother
didn't have a word
or a tear
for defeat
but she hated 
that uncomfortable catheter
with a vengeance
on those last
long days of her life....

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Not quite twelve, and I needed a catheter
I had a bladder infection
What’s that? She told, and I laughed at her

The male nurse, she said, pretty rough
That didn’t sound good, on reflection
She said she could, good enough!

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H/T to The One for the Job by Becky Forbes...

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Paraplegic 

Wheelchair, catheter

Racing, dancing, maneuvering

Colourful rims and frame, colourful little person,

Singing, rhyming, mischievous

Surgery, bedridden,

Me

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6th place in Diamante contest
Sponsor Janis Thompson
October 15, 2016...

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i killed myself 
and got an eviction notice 
he stuck it to 
my coffin with a wad of 
tangerine gum 



my mind has become melted parsley, 

my ears frozen cheese. 

like old aunt ginny used to say 

(lord jesus almighty 

bless her heart 

and soul and catheter) 

'sometimes you drink the milk 

and sometimes the milk 

drinks you.'...

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