Cancer Ward Trivandrum Poem by krishnakumar chandrasekar nair

Cancer Ward Trivandrum



Gopalakrishnan? G-o-p-a-l-a-k-r-i- - - - ..............
Carefully this way please

Susan George? Susan.............Please come
Make way for her please

Jayachandran? Jayachandran? J-a-y-a.............................
Is anybody known to Jaychandran 48years from kannur here?

Abdullah? Abdu.... Yes, please sit here
No don’t worry.................just sit here

Fatima? Fatima...........Oh! , Please get a stretcher for her
Please move aside everybody and make way please

The rest of you can please wait till your files are ready
Lie down, sit and watch TV, relax....You will be called

(Welcome, welcome to the most “secular”place on earth
Welcome to Regional Cancer Centre Trivandrum!)

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Spending days and nights in RCC Trivandrum, I came across this situation during morning roll call in the OPD. My father in law lost his fight to lung cancer about two years back and I learnt things no university education can give you by just spending a month or so in the Cancer ward.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Geetha Jayakumar 25 September 2013

It's touching. Thanks for sharing with us.

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Dinesan Madathil 25 September 2013

Touching... making one think a lot... a few TV episodes on RCC retold in your poem... Be writing sir.

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