The Protocol asks:
“What year is it now?”
“1984” I reply.
The machine stamps ‘Cognitive impairment ESTABLISHED’:
and I fall down a dystopian Orwellian memory-hole.
The Protocol knows what’s best:
do not stray from the pathway
Evidentially (or not)
The Protocol has no need to consider
maleficence and Hippocrates’
but I am an oaf.
The Protocol has moved-on:
ageing is a thing of the past!
Patterns of pathology
have become
TODAY.
The Protocol is unstoppable in its progress.
“It is an all out fight”
our Prime minister confirms.
The metaphors
engaged
are indeed pathological.
The Protocol fights stigma! [The machine confirms].
And any ‘diseased Other’ has nothing to fear
from The Protocol.
A poem written by Dr Peter J Gordon, February 2013.