For four weeks, Listener Poet Beck Klassen sat in the cafeteria of a hospital in Leamington, Ontario with a sign advertising Free Custom Poetry and their typewriter. When curious folks took them up on the offer, they asked, “What should the poem be about?” Then, they listened.
These poems, inspired by those conversations, tell the stories of some of the humans in that hospital.
Listener Poet Beck Klassen
Leamington, Ontario
Poems in this Collection
"I’m ensconced in the system." He was getting paid quite well to do his job in the healthcare sector, but he had internal conflict about how the system worked. He asked me, "Did you know that about 50% of healthcare dollars are spent on the last six months of life?"
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