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First Prize, NHS section, (inaugural) Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, 2010 it’s about a man
it’s about a man who healed the sick as far as he was able and this is the man who begged for penicillin to cure a child as far as he was able it’s about a man who burnt Fleming’s letter when the answer came back, None to Spare and it’s about a man who spoke at the funeral as far as he was able and this is the man who seven decades later still remembers the date on the letter he wrote it’s about a man who waits in his chair for a nurse to bring him whisky and water this is the man who drinks the New Year in although it’s a man who can no longer hear who peers out of his frame as far as he is able who thinks his own thoughts it’s about a man who comforted others death is inevitable, comes to us all it’s about a man who is showered daily and who now understands as far as he is able
Wendy French
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