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Madame Chipmunk
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0 posted 2002-05-18 09:15 PM

Hospitals

Nurses...efficient at tending patients
wake you up to take
your sleep medication

hospital gowns...the latest of fashion
adorned with pretty
flowers of passion

underneath those stiffly laundered sheets
lies a person
who feels like a piece of meat

the doctor who's a standup comic
prescribes pain pills
which make you vomit

you're not allergic unless there's a rash
so to the bathroom
you'll have to dash

though you're supposed to stay in bed
that bathroom trip
you'll make instead

the hospital...let there be no doubt
while you're still sick
they'll kick you out

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

1 posted 2002-05-18 09:23 PM

...and that's the ups and downs
of a hospital's gown...

Cute stuff!

Madame Chipmunk
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Michigan

2 posted 2002-05-18 09:27 PM

Thanks Karilea...
I had an ultrasound at one hospital and the hospital gown barely covered my tush...
and I'm only 5'1"......Can you imagine a big tall man wearing one of those?

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

ThisDiamond
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3 posted 2002-05-18 09:30 PM

A smile worth reading. Great. ThisDiamond

Madame Chipmunk
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4 posted 2002-05-18 09:33 PM

Thanks so much, Diamond...I;m glad you got a smile out of it...but all of that stuff is really true!

~ patient hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Mistletoe Angel

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since 2000-12-17

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Portland, Oregon

5 posted 2002-05-18 09:38 PM

(giggles in delight) Oh Lyra, hospitals always creep me out in strange ways too, it can indeed be very errie and foreign to me and when all I want is a restroom so I can be in silence for a moment, it's always confusing where to find it! (big hugggsssss) This is wonderful, sweet friend, I always love the way you express common themes, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Lyra, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

"Underneath your clothes there's an endless story..."

Shakira

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Canada eh.

6 posted 2002-05-18 09:49 PM

Oh Lyra! Yes, I know first hand just how true this is!
Humm, trying to imagine a tall man in one of those short gowns...

Funny stuff here.
~Hugs~

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
dancing with you in the summer rain~

Madame Chipmunk
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Michigan

7 posted 2002-05-18 10:06 PM

Thanks Noah...I hope that you never have to use any other room but the restroom in a hospital.

~many hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Madame Chipmunk
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8 posted 2002-05-18 10:12 PM

Thanks Nancy...
tall man + short gown = embarassment

I noticed that at U of M, where I now go for treatments etc....that all of the gowns are tremendous. The ones I wore for radiation treatment, I had to wrap twice around myself.
But thats better than the skimpy ones here in Kalamazoo...and, tall men can wear them.

~ hospital hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Magnus

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South Carolina, USA

9 posted 2002-05-18 10:14 PM

Sheeesh, wearing one of those gowns....
might be a little bit of southern
hemisphere exposure....on all continents
for a tall guy....being almost 6-2 myself..
hmmmmmmm???

Love how you said this, Lyra...

Madame Chipmunk
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Michigan

10 posted 2002-05-18 10:25 PM

Barry...You can't go to the hospital in Kalamzoo....you are much too tall!

Sorry, yoou'll have to go to U of M where they only have gowns for bigger folks and us little people have to wrap them around ourselves twice.

~ tall hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Midnitesun

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Gaia

11 posted 2002-05-18 11:04 PM

LOL, yes, I sure can imagine a tall man wearing that gown.

Any passionate poets willing to model this hospital garb for the rest of us?
I am in a naughty mood, with only my imagination to comfort me.

Madame Chipmunk
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Michigan

12 posted 2002-05-18 11:10 PM

Thanks Kacy....Barry said he's 6'2"

Maybe you can convince him!

~ short hospital gown hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

catalinamoon

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The Shores of Alone

13 posted 2002-05-19 08:10 AM

hahaha, you said it, Lyra.
Sandra

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Kethry
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Victoria Australia

14 posted 2002-05-19 09:00 AM

Lyra,
I'd haunt a hospital just to get a chance to see Barry in one of those gowns. Very funny write.
Kethry

Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind. Unknown

Madame Chipmunk
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Michigan

15 posted 2002-05-19 05:12 PM

Thanks Sandra...I'm glad you enjoyed!

I remembered your recent poem about doctors and thought this would make a great companion piece...

I hope you're feeling better

~healing hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Madame Chipmunk
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Michigan

16 posted 2002-05-19 05:15 PM

Thanks Keth...do you suppose that Barry might be going to the poet's meet in Florida this Sept....maybe we could arrange for him to be in a hospital.....not sick of course,

just to model one of those gowns for us!

~ naughty hugs

Lyra

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"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

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