Sunday, 18 January 2026

poem 256

 

He never counts this year’s

seventeen-thousand dead

For tonight he rests his head. 

Praying silent through the dark, 

The scripture of a sick man’s greed.


For he believes in the profit 

Off the great class war,  

For here Today’s front line

Is. a. NHS  corridor, 

Made. Just. For. The. Poor.


He hums the tune 

that "Private is Best," 

While the broken are put out to death, 

With a silent, "Fuck You," 

He pays the bill 

jumps the NHS queue…….over you 


Inopimortality means death by poverty. 

Inopimortality means death by poverty. 

Inopimortality yes it means, your death by poverty.


And tonight a nurse weeps 

For tomorrow she walks corridors 

That just torture the poor 

Ohhhhh Just like before 


Oh yess she walks corridors 

And beholds Inopimortality


That just torture the poor 

Just like before 

Just like before 

Just like before 

She will walk NHS corridors

That. Torture. The poor.





https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/15/nhs-corridor-care-torture-patient-deaths-staff-nightmares 


NHS corridor care is ‘torture’ leading to patient deaths and staff nightmares

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