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Waiting<\/strong> to Taste the First Salt<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A pacemaker<\/p>\n clocked out<\/p>\n <\/p>\n her days. Two doctors<\/p>\n had removed her gall<\/p>\n <\/p>\n bladder, and left<\/p>\n ninety-four years<\/p>\n <\/p>\n of stored bile. She\u2019d cling<\/p>\n till the bitter end,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n we figured,<\/p>\n waiting shamefaced<\/p>\n <\/p>\n for the acidic<\/p>\n aftertaste<\/p>\n <\/p>\n of her words that spread<\/p>\n like scars<\/p>\n <\/p>\n to settle and dissolve.<\/p>\n In her cobwebbed voice,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n she said<\/p>\n she wouldn\u2019t make it<\/p>\n <\/p>\n and no one held her hand.<\/p>\n What little strength<\/p>\n <\/p>\n we had. Her body wasted<\/p>\n with fever<\/p>\n <\/p>\n and vomit.<\/p>\n Her back clenched,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n bladder flattened. Death put on<\/p>\n her polyester gown,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n her sparse body silenced<\/p>\n to a star of fragile bones.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Is Empty He Says<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Every two weeks I ache<\/p>\n in his conversations his breakable<\/p>\n stories his word-spelling the useless sticky<\/p>\n ways he repeats what he knew<\/p>\n and then his numbers<\/p>\n incomplete but ticking how<\/p>\n they enchant and pass<\/p>\n through many times<\/p>\n I stood I stand<\/p>\n by the toaster and listen<\/p>\n to the smell of his blinkings<\/p>\n his voice still<\/p>\n music and the clear echoing<\/p>\n and the cup empties and the cup<\/p>\n is empty he says goodbye<\/p>\n eight ways says he is guided and I am full<\/p>\n of the last line next word the scorch<\/p>\n of fortune his unhappy leanings<\/p>\n and then he transposes nouns the days<\/p>\n narrow not belonging and I listen but know<\/p>\n nothing the phone line dead<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A pacemaker
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