Category: health /doctors /hospitals
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The fighter
This morning, I talked with a cousin fighting For his life with pancreatic cancer in Indiana. Always upbeat, he told me that last week His doctor told him it had spread to his liver and lungs, But they can cut those out and if chemo treatments number 21-24 don’t work, He might get accepted in…
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haiku for an ADHD partner
stand at open door look for one more thing to do lateness becomes you 8-5-22
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Cora Lee
On First Thursday evenings I imagine you standing in robe and slippers staring down into a cluttered living room Before you passed into a diabetic coma landing all bruised and broken at the bottom of a rising stair 8-8-22
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Epsom salts
Sitting on the porch scalding my feet in Epsom salts. Rocking back and forth in an old chair. Lamenting the sacrifice of the tree. Wondering what other pieces were torn from its corpse. Does it mourn the loss of siblings living in other homes or that fell off the dock at the furniture store. Sitting…
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Waiting
beyond the door of our house I sit in the shade on my right a small table, a bottle of water, a notebook, a book of poetry, a book of prayers bright green moss cushions my feet birds call from the woods the Tourettes hum of distant traffic palms turned skyward I’m waiting for healing…
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Faraway somewhere
4 am, half awake, deep-throated, distant fire truck siren wails. Its angry horn bellows, lookout! Complains again at another intersection. Ambulances and police cars sing harmony. Racing towards Hopkins on Garners Ferry Road, they do not turn into our neighborhood. In a faraway somewhere a family is in distress. Happy they did not stop at…
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healthcare greed haiku
stupid d**n co-pay gives false blood pressure reading causing more co-pays 2-17-23
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