Adventures in Community Palliative Care

I didn’t do very many creative, arty type things in 2020 and maybe that is ok. I spent plenty of time admiring the work of persons of greater skill instead. I also spent 3 days a week for about 7 months in Community Palliative Care. This means, I got to visit people’s homes and treat …

Social media sensations

i was at cartoon class asking my teacher a question it must have been important coz i dont even remember just remember showing him instaKAPOW electrocerebral silence i must have been dazed and drooling coz he looked unimpressed but i swear it was like all the lights of downtown tokyo condensed into a four inch …

An unmerry Christmas

There was no warning. She was walking to the mailbox When the wave came. As she was old and frail, She couldn't run, Legs washed out from under her, Head hitting the concrete with a sickening thud. The doctors couldn't help, They made it worse. Better if she hadn't gone to hospital at all. Cleaned …

Public Service

There is a hospital I know Where the grass don't grow And bureaucratic creepers Crush the good souls. The concrete cage is barbed by crown of thorns, garlanded by nasty self interest. When the stars align Hopefuls hack at the weed, But the pernicious thing comes back: The bureaucratic creepers Crush the good souls.  

Ingrained patriarchal norms #houseofgod #residency #medicaltraining

I really don’t want to read House of God. I really don’t want to read House of God. I really don’t want to read House of God. I really don’t want to read House of Ged. I really don’t want to read House of God. I really don’t want to read House of God. I …