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Bruce Dawe Poetry Analysis

Nephele Buchanan10.8

Doctor to Patient

Please sit down. I’m afraid I have some

rather bad news for you; you are now seventeen

and you have contracted an occupational disease called

unemployment. Like others similarly afflicted

you will experience feelings of

shock, disbelief, injustice, guilt, apathy and aggression

(although not necessarily in that order)

and you’ll no doubt be urged to try the various

recommended anodynes: editorials in newspapers,

voluntary unpaid work for local charities , booze,

other compulsive mind-destroyers, prayer, comforting

talks with increasingly less-interested friends.

It is a small comfort to know that the disease

is universal and can accommodate

the middle-age and thirtyish and strikes down

those camps in Kampong Sam and Warsaw.

However you will discover, as the time passes,

that your presence in itself will make others

obviously uncomfortable. Try not to let

your shadow, at this stage,

fall across your neighbour’s plate; eat

with the right hand only; do not touch

others in public (this can be easily

misconstrued); keep always

down-wind, if possible. Please remember

you have now become our common vulnerability

personified. Oh yes, and, by the way,

you will be relieved to know the disease

is only in a minority of cases terminal.

Most, that is, survive. Next please.

Doctor to Patient

Bruce Dawe- 1980

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