Uncle History has always hung around hospitals…

Uncle History has always hung around hospitals…

Before they discovered ether
Patients screamed their lungs out
(From “patiens”
One who suffers
And the verb “patior”
Which means I am suffering)
He saw how non-transactional it was
Everyone suffered
Tuberculosis for the doctors
Women bleeding out
Asklepios with his snakes
No one emerged alive
Which was and is
The source of history
Uncle carries a stalk without blossoms
Inside his coat…

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