'murrkanyakarni'/'going to the lock hospital' p 33 - i wonder if there are many poems to compare to this? poems written about sickness in the plural? first person is used in the poem, but not in terms of the narrator's illness. the tone too is far from selfpity. the patients travel in a truck, a reminder of holocaust literature but its tone is miles away.. the truck is 'gobbling up the many miles, humming a tune ..'
Hey! I didn't realise there were so many of us
going to Murrkanya.
'I wonder how we will fare.
Will we go home better, or
will we go home to die?'