For four weeks, Listener Poet Elle Klassen sat in the cafeteria of a hospital in Leamington, Ontario with a sign advertising Free Custom Poetry and her typewriter. When curious folks took her up on the offer, she asked, “What should the poem be about?” Then, she listened.
These poems, inspired by those conversations, tell the stories of some of the humans in that hospital.
Listener Poet Elle 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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