Sweet Pills for the Hospital Ward

Sweet Pills for the Hospital Ward is a compilation of five books all offering restless verse primed to divert sluggish thoughts away from pending medical appointments to refocus on the fabric of society. Illustrated plays are punctuated with irreverent images of politicians and other despots. Social issues are addressed using political satire as a cathartic remedy for hospital inmates. Since they have a plethora of faces to spare, bureaucrats from different branches of governance will no doubt endorse their images for public appraisal. This philanthropic gesture will no doubt be appreciated by convalescing readers
Compilation - Sweet Pills for the Hospital Ward
Book One - Pills for the First Consultation
Book Two - Pills for the First Night
Book Three - Pills for the First Day
Book Four - Pills for Visiting Hours
Book Five - Pills for the Homeward Bound
Hospital administration becomes such a bind when institutional doctors concur that the first thing a patient needs is a pen to push around on a sheet of multi-choice questions. A tirade of officialdom seems designed to confirm a patient's new status as an article of trade - colloquially termed a 'client' in medical law jargon. If the red tape louts starring in this book get their way, the patient becomes a commodity statistic.
As an antidote to bureaucratic thoughts, the author prescribes these undemanding yet subtle anecdotes containing irreverent plays interspersed with original artwork, plays and poems by the author. While intended for a patient destined for a long spell, the verses may be read by anyone seeking asylum from dominant ideology.
The opening play pokes fun at the veneration shown to despot, Kim Jong-Un during a triumphant tour of a North Korean psychiatric ward. While tin pot dictators offer easy targets for satire, the author also has his cross-hairs trained on western figureheads, politicians, gurus and businessmen. Plays, poems and fables are richly enhanced with digitally manipulated audacious images of dubious characters from eugenics proponents to tabloid proprietors. Paintings by the author offer an interlude from the relentless satire of prominent social leaders. In particular, an interned patient may relate to the fable 'Bureaucratic Short Fuse' since it allows vent to exasperation invariably thrust upon a patient when confronted with wads of unsigned documents published in small print legalese.

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