Napowrimo 2021
Day TWENTY TWO
HELLO AM I EVEN FLYING
Do you want me to cut your food up for you
one of them asks me at breakfast time
No thank you I reply shovelling my eggs
with a plastic spoon and biting into my bacon
After brekkie they tell me that it's window
cleaning day you remember how to do that
don't you they ask in a round about way
Yes of course I reply we did it last year
Okay they say would you like the chamois or
the squeegee or do you want to foot the ladders
I want to put the soapy hot water on the windows
I inform them in no uncertain terms please I beg
We don't use hot water any more they tell me
we use cold aqueous ozone water these days
we just spray it on squeegee it off and buff it up
Okay I tell them I'll go on the chammy I think
As we go out to the garden to set up the ladders
the health and safety officer hurries over shouting
Have you undertaken a risk assessment he asks
you can't let patients climb ladders without one
Yes of course my caregiver tells the obnoxious man
we have filled out the forms in triplicate for you
They don't actually let me climb the ladders although
they have a better plan they send me up on a cherry
picker strapped to a guard rail to stop me from falling
From the top floor windows I can see all of the estate
as the cherry picker moves along to the next window
wobbling a bit hello am I even flying on this crazy thing
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