Procedure

Hang by your rewards dreaming through recheck.

Absorb as while white diet the world’s colour.

Fill out the health form boxing your whole life.

Divorce daytime TV its waiting room script.

Hold that thought. Count the half hours watching

Hospital ceilings lenses sprinklers vents

Repeat anaesthetist’s twenty questions

Alarms spotlights then needle in the vein.

Take me to the mostest amazinger party

Volume up ‘Everlasting Love’ and friends

Coming through doors more friends and spangled food.

Wake to anaesthetic curtaining up on

A world where Australia’s on fire

Gripped by science, intrepid and grandiose.

Photograph: The Austin Hospital and Burgundy Street in Heidelberg from the Level 3 waiting room of Warringal Private.