SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK

Socialist Stanza No. 6

Medical Examination

 

The doctor became a hero

As the epidemic spread;

So many colleagues counted

Amongst the too many dead.

 

Never enough equipment,

Warnings through the years ignored,

Long, long hours with forty winks snatched

And then back on to the ward.

 

A round of applause come Thursday;

But when the pandemic ceased

There was no reward or let-up

As the waiting lists increased.

 

Inflation took a scalpel to

Doctors’ retention and pay:

Will their value be realised

When the last one’s gone away?

 

D. A.