Artist in Residence

The artist in residence

At the department for chronic diseases

Was considering her inspiration.

Should it be Alzheimer's, a composition

Full of repetition, and uncertainty?

Or Parkinson's, a study in vibration,

In which the sounds or frequencies

Mirrored those of the condition?

There were possibilities with hypertension,

Where stringed instruments tuned high and tight

Could be made to produce strained

And high pitched palpitation,

Causing the sudden collapse of their bridges,

Each a percussive explosion,

And brass could have its tubes narrowed,

Causing different sounds through clogged restriction.

Post vasectomy chronic pain

Proved too difficult a translation

There could be no real healing harmonisation,

And therefore nothing to gain.

A musical representation

Of chronic kidney disease,

Could depict in sound the imperfection

Of the break down of filtration,

So that discord began to build up.

But then , the Artist in Residence at the Department for Chronic Diseases

let rip with imagination

And plumped instead for a combination

Of possible cures, and sampled effective medication,

Composing randomly in response 

And deciding the role was a great affectation,

She was freed from the need to proceed

According to anyone's expectation,

And produced a wonderful, new creation.