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Keep Away
Keep Away
My wife’s body is thrown from one treatment to the next
Week after week she is caught and released
Now by chemo, next by radiation, then by experimental drugs
Back and forth to the hospital
Her hair flying off, her stomach growing queasy
As we play “keep away” from cancer.
I Had A Friend
She had two kids
and her husand was kind
and her days were filled
with pain as the doctors
tried to get the radiation
to comply with theory.
.
I had an aunt, tenacious
enough to beat the unbeatable
but she died, glad to go,
wishing she had gone
before her husband, my
favorite uncle.
.
I wish those peace who
sit in rooms to wait. Who
stand beside the bed with
the tubes and apparati
that keeps a beloved living.
I wish you peace and rest
and a reprieve from
the pain that hopes ending
is hovering.
.
~~A~~
04-21-13
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