Get up early.
Prepare.
Bus to H/S and ÖBB train
To KOR. Korneuburg.
Slow walk from the station
To the LKH-KOR. The hospital.
Registration.
Coffee and ‘Apfelstrudel’.
Just as I finished – my call –
Room 8. Ambulant patients.
Dr S. smiles albeit she’s
Flat out busy.
Next the clamps from my
Knee wound removed.
I count 21.
Mü-Gu a descendant of
A family with a poet does
A sterling job.
Next to the x-ray dept.
Cabin 5.
Two quick snaps and back
Again to room 8
Where Dr S. notates my next
Appointment June fourth.
She is not happy that my
Physiotherapy only starts in
Two weeks’ time.
But then it’s out of our hands.
Yet I assure her I’ll come
To terms with my recovery
Step by step and week by week
Playing the motor rail’s
Movement machine.
Yep.
Polar winds outside the hospital
Have cooled down the air
Considerably.
I phoned the landlord to keep
A bit of heating going
He’d switched off suddenly
During the night.
As sorry I feel about my spouse’s
Situation
I’m not able to do more about it
Than to support her as good as
Possible
Within my own physical restraints.
Takes recovery time to become
A fully fledged walker again.
A pub on the way.
I need some hot soup before
I face the polar air again.
Another morning at the LKH-KOR-
Hospital.
KOR.ROK
zoltanzelan
ZJG-POetry’19.