No. 17: Catheter

The girl has a

Cathéter à demeure.

It is French,

but basically Latin,

and means

a catheter,

that is a tube,

that is left in the body

for a long time.

Not just temporarily 

for the moment,

just when you want to drain

an organ of fluid

or inject something.

The elegant,

the fancy,

the French elegant name

that sounds like an expensive French dish,

despite the name,

it is a permanent catheter,

a constant source

of bacterial growth.

But now

antibiotics

are available.

A miracle cure

for bacteria.

So the girl with the prune belly

grows up on

antibiotics.

And yogurt.

 

Not yogurt this time, but chicken

on her father's birthday in October 1968 

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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...