Give Her Potato Salad! (Poem)

Give her Potato Salad!

I type stuff

For a living

Well, medical stuff

Records to be exact

You know,

Your personal information

That goes in the charts

I type the office notes

I type nursing home notes too

Sometimes I laugh

Sometimes I cry

Sometimes I shake my head 

And sometimes

I know what tests

The doctor will order

Before he gets to that part

That makes me feel pretty smart

But one little old lady

In one of the nursing homes

Only asks for potato salad

She screams that she wants

POTATO SALAD!

I find that amusing and sad

At the same time

But damn,

That lady has gumption.

© Expressions by Christine 7/13/11