sykehus

Sykehus 

The old hospital in the town center 
stark and unpainted
Dotted about in the near vicinity 
Funeral homes look like pearls 
around an elderly lady's neck  
at every election cycle the promise 
was to build a new Krankenhause 
in a rural environment and there
were pamphlets showing how great
it will be, but, perhaps next time 
when a gothic movie was made 
the hospital was used as a backdrop
As it stands there is not much to do
doctors chat with nurses, because
the ailing prefer a hospital in another 
town, the old place is more like
a hospice, where the old are sent 
waiting for death, their relatives
think it is unseemly to let them die
at home, not good for the children 

Zen
Neglect is
the biggest 
disease