Non-Durable
[for a country doctor]
Here’s another beige plastic do-hickey
busted. We’ll buy a new one,
throw the old away.
But you would have tinkered it back
till it worked. Thin physician hands
adept at hammer, shovel, trowel,
you could fix anything, or turn it
into something else of use.
These days, we can’t find a fuse.
Everything’s expendable.
After 87 years, you knew it was time
to recycle yourself, to turn in
your hands, your wrinkled gray eyes,
your gentle smile.
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