The A to Z of 2011

Abuse on some staff, and Booze bus galore,

car crashes, drugs deaths of children and more.

Some eavesdropping stories and unhelpful friends,

girlfriends who cry when their boys make amends.

Hysterical children, invisible men.

Jokes on the nurses, knives out again.

Lives are saved and more memories learned,

Nero's a hero, a man's overheard.

Police under threat, questions ignored,

Riots in London and strikes 'cross the board.

Teddies tell stories that children can't share,

Uniforms and vests can't hide that we care.

Visions that haunt me, the writer's block time,

Arms that need X-rays, and yawning in rhyme.

And now as we near year's end, and this verse, 

I'm still lacking Zzz's, the Insomniac's curse.