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闯补苍耻补谤测听13, 2015

Unanswered Questions

Michelle T.聽Long,聽MD1
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  • 1Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
JAMA. 2015;313(2):204. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.10833
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I wonder
Were they kind when they told you?
When they saw your cancer grow?
Dividing and multiplying
Metastasizing
Stealing your body鈥檚 comforts, your last breath
And time.

I know you by your first name
Not out of disrespect
But an intimacy I hope well earned.
My useless fingers traverse your vacant contour
Fingers that cannot soothe
Cannot heal
Left to explore this abandoned vessel
While the captain peacefully rests ashore.

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