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! Jerry's Journey - Category 1 (Urgent)
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I wonder what they mean
by urgent?
How close to death
must a person be
to qualify?
And how many other urgent's
are waiting in the queue?
Now a body in an ambulance
is always urgent -
siren screaming,
pulse racing,
‘pain level from one to ten’
sort of urgent.
But a name
on a computer screen
is simply that – a name.
And so my love,
I stroke your feet
and listen to you cough
and wheeze your way to sleep -
night after
night after
bloody night.
We must be patient,
we patients-to-be.
Alison Cassidy
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Frank Cannon (7/23/2008 11:27:00 AM)
I'm out of sequence, having come late to reading these, but nonetheless enthralled and guiltily engaged, needing to read them all, and, like you, trepidatiously wondering what it is I might find when I next come to visit. |
Flora Gillingham (6/10/2008 10:14:00 AM)
Oh dear, need to get to the next poem.
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