Health Care, In relation to current health reform talk. Options

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In light of all the healh care controversy, thought it might be o.k. to go back to lines I wrote in the Teri Schivo situation....remember?

Health Care*

The death watch began
the Friday before Palm Sunday.
The highest authority washed its hands of it.
The mother sobbed as mother's
do...helpless;
a few tried to takle water in;
the centurions stopped them.
The doctors said it would not be paniful.
She didn't complain; she couldn't.
Some say towards the last she said
she wanted to live.
Authority said the sounds
were only involuntary moans.
It took so long.
I wonder how long that
seemingly smiling face
will haunt us.


* In memory of Teri Schivo.


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