How the hell can you ask me, “How we feel?”
Barry Gonen 1986©, Negbah, Hadarom, Israel
Onset: 1949 at the age of three.
Do you want to be famous? unique? special ?A rare specimen of humanity? One in ten million?
Do you want to be published in journals, reports and books?
A subject of conversation and discussion?
Do you want to travel to never ending appointments?
Meetings, conferences, conventions?
Stay at hotels, all expenses paid?
Sounds good, doesn’t it?
Maybe, but I don’t recommend joining the PRP Brigade!
You’ll be prescribed …
Capsules, tablets, pills and drugs,
Potions, cocktails, concoctions,
Creams, ointments, salves, all sorts of experimental medications.
You’ll be photographed, x-rayed, bombarded by UV rays.
You’ll have Tar baths, Coal baths, Herbal baths, Acid baths,
Milk baths, Sulphur baths and Mud baths.
Blood tests, urine tests, allergy tests, stool tests.
You’ll be wrapped in plastic, a polyethylene “Mummy”!
Sweating, itching, scratching, It ain’t funny!
With your cuts bleeding, puss oozing, scabs peeling, flaking,
And blisters quaking!
You’ll be ‘put on show’!
Exhibit No 1!
No name!
No identity!
You’ll be pushed, pulled, prodded, poked, pricked and rubbed.
Undressed, unclothed, exposed and almost decomposed.
Immersed, injected, infused, ejected, rejected?
Unclean! Unclean! Unclean!
You’ll be investigated, examined, interrogated,
Analyzed, and defined.
Suffocated, hospitalized, incarcerated, immobilized,
Categorized and classified.
You’ll see Doctors, Physicians, Professors, Gurus, and Homeopaths.
Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Dietitians, Beauticians,
And representatives of most of the World’s religions!
None of them are Magicians!
Hands up! Hands down! Bend down! Turn around!……..Dismissed.
After all that, you’ll probably feel abused, or degraded, and definitely confused,
But, don’t be shy! Self-concious or embarrassed, ’cause………
The Show must go on! … Continue!…
It is a shame… but you’re not to blame,
Be proud you are PRP.!!!!!!!
It’s a Pity Raw Peel!. It’s a Pity Raw Deal!
Now! How the hell can you ask me how we feel?