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Congestive Heart Failure
JAMA. 2002;288:1952.
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As deaths go, it'd be better
than most—
the self slipping off
in a sea
of morphined tranquility.
But for you, mother,
who braved Ukranian
pogroms,
who read us Do not go gentle
instead of nursery rhymes—
is this the good night
you choose?
A porcine valve
might save you,
but you just whistle
through your teeth.
"Pig gristle in my heart"
Pffft!"
Look, I argue,
even God
wouldn't push kosher
that far.
"Darling," you say,
"This time
I fight the Cossacks
on my own soil."
Ronald Pies, MD
Lexington, Mass
Poetry and Medicine Section Editor: Charlene Breedlove, Associate Editor.
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