The boy watches fluid in tubes, lab coats,
\nHurried sneakers, hushed exchanges, and thinks
\nHe could grow into one who consults notes,
\nGives opinions, adjusts that thing that blinks
\nBeneath the window that reveals the wall
\nOf the mall, where later he will sip a shake.
\nThe patient, watching the jagged line fall
\nThat charts his spreading, swelling, burning ache,
\nWas once the boy and still by habit dreams
\nOf what he might learn to do and become.
\nNo greater sorrow than to recall your schemes
\nOf futures past when at last you must succumb.
\nI am the patient and the boy, hoping I
\nWill forget these lines when finally I lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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