Hospital Poems

First they banned flowers.

Unhygienic, you see.

Unsafe.

With their smells

and susceptibility

to spillages

so people brought poems 

to hospitals.

Then there was a pandemic.

And people were banned.

No visiting allowed

Unhygienic, you see.

Unsafe

with their smells

and susceptibility

to carry infection

so robots brought the poems

to hospitals.

Now things have moved on,

progress, you see.

Now robots write the poems

they bring to hospitals.

Soon people won’t notice 

the difference.

Soon people won’t remember

the difference.

https://braveandrecklessblog.com/2023/12/10/hospital-poems-lynn-white/?

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