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They sawed you open and what fell out with a tangle of cells was words
Not your words words you read out loud from signs, books, papers:
FINAL CLEARANCE LAST CHANCE SILENCE PLEASE
The last one you pulled from a hospital shelf the day after New Year's: PEPTOBISMOL
Not what a son might want to hear though pink and sweet and said with conviction and maybe love
Allan D. Peterkin Psychiatrist Toronto, Ont.