she’s the patient you don’t have anymore

she never came to see you,
never looked you in the eye,
she never came to tell you
how she hoped that she would die

she never asked for tablets,
never sought from you a note,
she never gave herself a chance,
she chose to stay remote

you’re not her doctor anymore
but don’t think you’re to blame,
you never even spoke to her
you never knew her name.

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To read ‘together in line’ click here

To read ‘the wrong patient’, click here

To read ‘Desolation Row’, click here

To read ‘Beaten’, click here

To read ‘she’s the patient you still don’t know you have’ click here

To read ‘she’s the patient you don’t know you have’, click here

To read ‘Eleanor Rigby is not at all fine’, click here

Other less than prosaic pieces:

To read ‘Crushed’, click here

To read ‘A Silent Tear’, click here

To read ‘A Lonely Heart’, click here

To read ‘The Old Surfer’, click here

To read ‘I knew a Man’, click here

To read ‘Masked’, click here

To read ‘Patient’, click here

To read ‘Room Enough’, click here

To read ‘Old Hands’, click here

To read ‘Yesterday and Today’, click here

To read ‘Resting in Pieces’, click here

To read ‘Poor imitations’, click here

To read ‘Spare me a doctor’, click here

To read ‘If’, click here

To read ‘Smoke Signals’, click here

To read ‘Moving Closer’, click here

To read ‘Someone left a cake out in the rain’, click here

To read ‘At Land’s End’, click here