and Flossie Nightgown’s ears are smoking!
\ndo those news moguls and political dogs
\nbelieve the masses do not understand that
\nif you have building 18 at Walter Reed
\nit implies there are at least 17 other buildings
\nare all the buildings as bad as #18?
\nhow many rooms are in building #18?
\nhow many of those rooms are look-alikes
\nfor the one room that is screamed at us?<\/p>\n
ask better questions the french poet proffers.<\/p>\n
Do members of Congress or Presidents
\nreceive medical care at Walter Reed?<\/p>\n
Why do we not remember August 6, 2005
\nthe day a “federal panel” voted to close down
\nWalter Reed Hospital?<\/p>\n
do forgive this ol’ retired registered nurse
\ni’ve seen bureaucracy and peter principle first hand
\nbut i’ve also seen nurse’s aides fighting over a dress
\nthey both wanted for their patient that they so loved
\ni’m weary watching old women\/men’s tongues clacking
\nand have felt for the poor inspectors who had to justify
\ntheir salaries by finding some lint-like “correction”
\nthat needed to be enforced and smelled the power trip
\nof administrator’s memos and the nurses who never
\nlose their idealism in spite of personal suffering
\nthat comes when willing to share the pain of another
\nand yes, some need to harden to carry on…<\/p>\n
Maybe John Fitzgerald Kennedy did all he came to do
\nby leaving behind “Imagine” what the great wealth
\nof this nation could do for others, if only,
\nwe changed our foreign policy.<\/p>\n
If it takes a whole village to save one child
\ndoes it take a Whole nation to save the children
\nof the world?<\/p>\n
Can these Divided States become United (whole) again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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