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Nursing Games<\/strong><\/p>\n The nurses took position The call bell was the signal The first to reach her patient But I won, the first across the line, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ross Wilson<\/strong>\u2019s pamphlet, The Heavy Bag<\/em>, was published by Calder Wood Press.\u00a0 His poems have appeared in many magazines. He also contributed to the script of The Happy Lands,<\/em> a feature film in which he was credited as an actor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nursing Games The nurses took position for the hundred metre hurdle, each focusing on the patient bedded at the end of their lane. The call bell was the signal that sent them running, leaping cold metal filing cabinets, racing towards the buzzing lights. The first to reach her patient was the loser. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8168,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8166\/revisions\/8168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfor the hundred metre hurdle,
\neach focusing on the patient
\nbedded at the end of their lane.<\/p>\n
\nthat sent them running,
\nleaping cold metal filing cabinets,
\nracing towards the buzzing lights.<\/p>\n
\nwas the loser. The winner
\nhad stopped to shuffle papers,
\ntick sheets, file forms.<\/p>\n
\nprotested. No, you did not,
\nshe was told, for if it wasn\u2019t written,
\nit wasn\u2019t done.<\/p>\n