No. 7: Sara – or?

It's calling from Sachsska Children's Hospital.

- Little Sara is doing so well, the nurse, sister Ulla, chirps into the phone.

- Her name is not Sara! the mother replies with despair in her voice.

- Her name is Mariana!

The nurse, sister Ulla

In the medical journal it actually says Sara.

Also Berggren. The mother's maiden name.

Sara Berggren.

Black on white.

Although sometimes it actually says Helen.


So if the girl would seem a bit schizophrenic,

although it's called bipolar nowadays,

she could always blame that Sara.

Mariana-Sara.

It sounds like another one of those

completely twisted combinations of

mismatched names

that are so typical of northern Sweden.

Or like a dance band. 

 

#ThePruneBellyGirl #PruneBelly #PruneBellySyndrome #rarediseases #survivor #childhood #handicap #autobiography 

 

These poems are originally written in Swedish and translated by myself. So if the translation sounds weird - please just laugh, or cry, or just shake your head and move on to the next poem, hoping for a better translation there... Thank you for your patience, and for following my story! By the way - my lyrics sometimes sounds weird in Swedish too...



 

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