Nagulesparan and Geri

 

Nagulesparan's daughter's wedding at Galle Face Hotel 

Piss off by Geri

 

Geri Jayasekara	Fri, Dec 1, 11:11 PM (9 hours ago)
to me

Hi, Philip,

This poem that I wrote is dedicated to our male batch mates who are currently having, or may develop, ‘Prostatism.’ 

                  PISS OFF! 

Oh what a bliss to pee with ease

A free flow of the amber clear

Looking down the pot, with the froth on top

Isn’t it like Pilsner beer?

You’re blessed if you start and stop when you want

Not pause with your thingy exposed

And doubly blessed if not spilled inside 

Once away with your trousers closed

Don’t postpone your bladder’s urgent call

And in case you don’t find a loo

A luxurious tree, a pole, or even

A red coloured post box would do

When at the loo of a bar or shop 

If ever the young men do scoff

Pray that you start and stop like them

And boldly tell them, “Piss off!”

Old age - Shared by Geri

Shared by Geri :-

 

Having 'pull' at the head-office.

 We, the 1960 entrants' medical batch, had finished our internships and were waiting for our post-intern postings. The Brahmins at the Head Office in the Health Department drew up the list of peripheral units, where the post-intern doctors would go. This was theoretically done on the merit list of the Final MBBS in Colombo, because this was the only medical faculty in 1965 - Peradeniya would produce their first pass out with MBBS 2 years later. The  GMOA did not have a say in the drawing of the list. Quite a few post--interns used their acquaintances at head office, to get posted to stations close to Colombo. This was called 'pull' in the vocabulary of the medicos.

The interns at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital had a party - a night of booze, tastes, singing and fried rice was the order of the day. Thavarasa, Ooyirilankumaran, Weerasinghe, Tissa Kappagoda and Geri Jayasekara were there in addition to the  Senior House Officers. Near the end of the party by way of conversation I remarked to Geri "Machan Geri, I am sure you will be getting a posting close  to Colombo, because you may be having a lot of 'Pull'. Geri's immediate response  was ' What 'pull' Machan, the only thing that I can pull is my fore-skin'. A Doctor who had been circumcised as a child added ' I can't even do that'.