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Open Poetry #32

In Good Hands

Joe Houck
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since 2001-04-23

Posts 324
california

0 posted 2004-05-04 04:03 AM

In Good Hands

Cut the mole off
It might be cancerous,
Cut your hair off
You’ve got cancer,

Flesh, dead flesh,
New skin, used skin,
It’s the filth that itches my nose,
Makes my eyes water from the
Cat dander on an old woman’s clothes,

Pop some Sudafed and wash it down with a shot of Windex
Ah, the artificial feeling of now seeing and breathing,

Clearly,

This is the way divinity intended to cure the moderately ill
Just leave the brain tumors for the makers of miracles,
Breathe deep, your in good hands, Just take this pill,
Glut down the antihistamine with a nicotine chaser

Substitute one broken nose for a lung on a crutch
Watch you hobble down that all encompassing road with one arm around father time,
Thank you, thank you much.

"The worst vice is advice" (Al Pacino, devil's advocate)

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2004-05-04 04:35 AM

powerful write here Joe...I like the way you did this

J.Samm
Member

since 2004-01-12

Posts 415
Iloilo City, Philippines

2 posted 2004-05-04 07:23 AM

this is certainly very original...a good mix of a bit of sarcasm and even perhaps, satire?...i'm in the medical field , i found your poem quite striking...good job!

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

3 posted 2004-05-04 09:21 AM

since I am living among the cancerous...I could relate to the power of your words.

M

MGROVES

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since 2004-02-01

Posts 3802
california

4 posted 2004-05-04 03:45 PM

agree with others, very good words, very true words

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