[lit-ideas] Re: Casualties
- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 18:23:27 -0600
Very good, Lawrence. I like that a lot.
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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> Fighter planes came low
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> Over the house all morning.
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> Ben looked concerned, “just planes,”
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> My son said, but why here,
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> Why now? Somehow something
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> Had changed. A siren howled close by.
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> They were coming for us once again.
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> There is an important obligation
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> Not to discriminate, not to
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> Tell Susan they can’t give her
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> A transplant when she is old,
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> But the chief surgeon
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> Confessed the chance
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> Infinitesimally small.
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> We answered the call
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> And agreed to tests, as much
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> As they liked. She never
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> Complained, but she is weary
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> Especially of the more
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> Stressful demands and
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> Of the treatment.
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> In my dream she was
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> As beautiful as she used to be.
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> I took her in saying,
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> “You have always been
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> Beautiful.” She looked at me
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> Out of her torment, crying “it is too
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> Hard now. I’m not like that anymore.”
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> I woke suddenly, stumbling
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> Up out of my lounge
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> Chair, unable to keep
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> My balance as the room
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> Spun. I lurched down
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> The hall to see for myself the
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> Soft rise and fall of her breathing.
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