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Spare Parts: rap-style poem and song 🎵

Spare Parts

𝘈𝘯 𝘕𝘏𝘚 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘙𝘢𝘱

There are too many old people
needing spare parts,
legs, knees, hips,
new hearts.

On the NHS—
a year for a consult,
another year for an op.
Need a new leg?
You’ll just have to hop.

Dates moved forward,
dates moved back,
if delay is long enough
you might snuff.

There are too many old people
needing spare parts—
legs, knees, hips.
Where to start?

If you wait
for the NHS
it might be too late—


Go private.


—Lesley Scoble, September 2026

Audio — Spare Parts 🎵

A rap-style commentary

Spare Parts | Lyrics and Sound Design©️Lesley Scoble | Performed by AI Singer

Notes:
My rap poem is inspired by the growing demand for joint replacements and the long waiting times faced by many NHS patients.

The NHS waiting list remains one of the most visible challenges facing modern healthcare.

Image Credit:
Featured image created by the author with the assistance of Microsoft Copilot.

Thanks:
My gratitude and thanks to you, the reader, for popping by.

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37 responses to “Spare Parts: rap-style poem and song 🎵”

  1. Aptivi Avatar
    Aptivi

    Great poem, and I enjoyed the song 👍☺️

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    1. lesleyscoble Avatar
      lesleyscoble

      Thanks so much, Aptivi. Delighted you enjoyed it. 🤗

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      1. Aptivi Avatar
        Aptivi

        My pleasure, Lesley 🤗

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      2. lesleyscoble Avatar
        lesleyscoble

        💕

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  2. brazannemuse Avatar
    brazannemuse

    Oh this is so painfully true!!! I had an NHS Physio referral. 2 online questionnaires completed revealed I needed to be passed to Musculoskeletal – so a telephone appointment was made where she discussed exercises over the phone and told me I had to do them right of they wouldn’t work.!! IF I needed more help in a month to give them a call and ask to see someone …. A whole 6 weeks to get that far… Called private physio, seen within days, but want me to go back to GP for more scans … I can’t just see GP – it has to be run via the online triage, where they text you back … 🙈

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    1. lesleyscoble Avatar
      lesleyscoble

      The system is broken. I had eight consultation appointments moved between October and August of the following year. Eventually, the physiotherapist at my GP surgery said there was nothing more he could do for me. At last, I got my NHS consultation, only to be told that the waiting list for the operation was another year…

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      1. brazannemuse Avatar
        brazannemuse

        😩. How are you doing…? 💞

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      2. lesleyscoble Avatar
        lesleyscoble

        Up and down, thanks, Suzanne. I enthusiastically walked too far yesterday and am paying for it a bit today. At least it’s a getting-better pain as opposed to a getting-worse pain.

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      3. brazannemuse Avatar
        brazannemuse

        Do try not to run before you can walk though …. Yes a getting better pain is far easier to tolerate – but still there fur a reason to listen to … remember the tortoise wins..! 💞

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      4. lesleyscoble Avatar
        lesleyscoble

        Poco a poco as the Spanish say. I must try to become the tortoise. 🐢💗

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      5. lesleyscoble Avatar
        lesleyscoble

        I hope you get sorted soon, too 🤗

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      6. brazannemuse Avatar
        brazannemuse

        🤗 thank you 💞

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      7. lesleyscoble Avatar
        lesleyscoble

        😘

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  3. pvcann Avatar
    pvcann

    I have a poet friend who is older and worried because the service is not really helping him. Appalling – yes, go private.

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    1. lesleyscoble Avatar
      lesleyscoble

      It is in a bad way. And I’m in a ‘fast-track’ area, Paul. Other areas have to wait two years.

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      1. pvcann Avatar
        pvcann

        It’s not how it began, sad to hear that it is in a bad way.

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      2. lesleyscoble Avatar
        lesleyscoble

        Yes, it’s sadly falling short.

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      3. pvcann Avatar
        pvcann

        😥

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    2. lesleyscoble Avatar
      lesleyscoble

      I hope your friend gets help. 💕

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      1. pvcann Avatar
        pvcann

        It is beginning but he’s having to spend a lot on getting things sorted, and any help is so expensive.

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  4. Sadje Avatar
    Sadje

    A sad state of affairs

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    1. lesleyscoble Avatar
      lesleyscoble

      It is rather.

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      1. Sadje Avatar
        Sadje

        🥰🤗

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  5. poetisatinta Avatar
    poetisatinta

    So true Lesley but it did make me smile love the rap🙌

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    1. lesleyscoble Avatar
      lesleyscoble

      🤗Thank you, A.J. Especially for the smile ☺️ Smiles make my day. xxx

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      1. poetisatinta Avatar
        poetisatinta

        That’s such a lovely thing to say thanks Lesley 🥰

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  6. byngnigel Avatar
    byngnigel

    Oh, lesley… I was in stitches with that second stanza. 🤣🤣🤣
    You were in your element with this one.

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    1. lesleyscoble Avatar
      lesleyscoble

      Hee hee, Nigel, I’m thrilled it amused. 😁🤗xxx

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      1. byngnigel Avatar
        byngnigel

        Someone can’t sleep?
        You’re welcome, Lesley.

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      2. lesleyscoble Avatar
        lesleyscoble

        Who needs sleep‽
        You do realise that this is a very serious poem, Nigel? 🤭

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      3. byngnigel Avatar
        byngnigel

        😅😅😅 if you’re laughing, it means you’re doing much better..that has lifted my mood. 😊

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      4. lesleyscoble Avatar
        lesleyscoble

        Nigel, that’s so nice ❤️
        😁If you don’t laugh, you cry 🤗❤️
        Keep smiling xxx

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      5. byngnigel Avatar
        byngnigel

        Amen 😊

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  7. toniaeva Avatar
    toniaeva

    Hi Lesley, sad to hear you are maybe waiting for a spare part. My daughter works in Mount Vernon Hospital as a theatre administrator. She has to book the operations ensuring that the right spare part is ordered (left hip or right? etc) also make sure the surgeon is booked and other staff. She often passes by the theatre and she says it sounds like a blacksmiths shop with the banging of metal hip joints into place. Glad you see the funny side of life like I do. I helps us deal with what life throws at us. Guess you won’t be tap dancing for a while yet. I still go to my class on Tuesdays, but a lot of the ladies are suffering with dodgy knees and hips. Best Wishes Antonia x

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    1. lesleyscoble Avatar
      lesleyscoble

      Like a blacksmiths shop 😂
      Toni, I had a bilateral hip op on August 19th. I was at the end of the road so had to go private. Couldn’t wait for the NHS. Would have been too late.
      Book me in for that tap class! I can’t wait to tap dance as soon as I am able.
      Much love,
      Lesley 🤗❤️

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      1. toniaeva Avatar
        toniaeva

        Great, glad to hear that you are now the bionic woman!

        Is hatch end to far for you it’s on the overground line. nad there are several buses that pass us at the Harrow Art Centre. Do you remember Rita Tuffey from the students? I had lunch with her yesterday at ZAZA’s in Pinner. She used to come to tap with me but now she has back trouble and goes to physio on Tues instead.

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      2. lesleyscoble Avatar
        lesleyscoble

        Iron Man watch out 😂
        Of course I remember Rita 💖 What fun it would be to meet up again and go tapping xxxx

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