No. 22: Sunked

The doctors' round comes sweeping

into the girl's room

at Karolinska Hospital

At the head,

the chief physician

and docent N.O. Ericson,

accompanied by

a whole bunch of

medical candidates

and nurses

who listen

attentionally

as the chief physician explains

that here we have Mariana,

and when she stands

she looks like

a pregnant woman,

and when she lies down

she looks like

a sunked sofa.

The candidates laugh. 

The associate professor looks pleased.  

The mother goes up

to the maternity flat

and cries. 

 

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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...