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Here is his disease, Mrs. Johnson
Wrapped neatly in a package
Tied with statistics and prognosis
Delivered on your doorstep
With the X-ray that showed nothing.
Here with it, his labwork
I can show you how his sodium rose
then dove then rose then calmed
I can stamp on a theory
He wasn't a fighter
He was too young
He was too old
It doesn't matter
We will still cry
The strings will unravel
The truth flies in our face
He has no more pain I say
To tidy things up
To comfort you....and me
From the But why?
I don't know

Jana Upshaw

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