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There’s pain everywhere,
And I don’t think I’m
Doing
Much about it
Issues in the neighborhood
Still stand
In the house are
Grievances unspoken, which go
Better than confrontations
Bearing fruit in violence,
If only verbal
And so with all
The awfulness that’s
Really going on—sickness,
Death,
Wanting to rush around
The scientific process
For fear of more
That’s terrible—I ask
Maybe we ask
For something better than we
Tend to be
A cure
At least a treatment for more
Than symptoms (though
grateful for that),
Frankly, a beatific day
Not until tomorrow
C L Couch
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