In the House of Death
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Based on a true story I am privy to. At the latest, the woman portrayed in this poem has good vital signs despite hardly eating a bite, but the visiting nurse says the time is nigh.
In a house too huge for them to maintain,
a man hunched over with back pain lives
with a disabled daughter and
his very elderly wife.
A recent heart attack
has left her frailer
and meaner. The
doctor “says”
she will
die.
Not
willing
to get up
or walk for years,
she had atrophied.
Refusing sponge baths, meds,
or a private nurse, she screams
for her ill spouse whose little strength
does little good. Time is crawling on
the doomsday clock: two minutes to midnight.
Feb. 18, 2018
For Emile Pinet's the doomsday clock: two minutes to midnight contest
Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2018
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