'Down the hatch'

How to write the perfect emr poem - a deep dive

I have now been running the emr.poetry account for a little over three years. Two hundred and ninety posts later, the account has over 80,000 followers from around the globe. There is an almost unmanageable number of submissions every day. If left idle for a few weeks, the submissions pile into the hundreds that I sort through when I have the time and motivation. Most submissions are good, a lot are funny, and a few have me in hysterics. There are the countless spelling errors in unfortunate places (‘Ward, mobilise, die’). There are the rich and colourful descriptions of psychiatric patients’ delusions, which, while an interesting insight, are automatically disqualified due to their extremely identifiable nature. If I had a dollar for every time someone sent in the words ‘pussy discharge’ in reference to someone’s attempt to record ‘purulence’ (yes, that is the word you’re looking for) I’d finally be able to quit my day job in which I write ‘purulent discharge’ about thirty times a mi…