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A. Green<br />
Omonigho Ekhomu<br />
MSI<br />
Two weeks before<br />
maybe three<br />
and my news could be different.<br />
In place <strong>of</strong> helpless posture<br />
you would see<br />
an enabler <strong>of</strong> healing<br />
what failed?<br />
My research which<br />
has not approached the depths<br />
to remedy your ailment?<br />
Your kidneys?<br />
Could they have borne a moment longer<br />
till relief was afforded...<br />
Now I come to you without words<br />
to recall the cocky sureness<br />
you first greeted me with.<br />
No speech to comfort your mother<br />
who must now look to years <strong>of</strong> looking for a way<br />
so your blood can be cleaned.<br />
In wake <strong>of</strong> my distasteful words<br />
dreams drop to the earth<br />
with a clatter that resounds<br />
the dull finality<br />
I witness with my soul<br />
in your eyes as you<br />
understand<br />
I cannot heal.<br />
She Who Also Sits and Waits<br />
Sue Brooks<br />
Surgery<br />
She holds his old gray shirt and breathes in memories, some stale, some sweet…<br />
When will they come to her with news? Can it really be two hours now?<br />
The phone call came just after dawn. No c<strong>of</strong>fee yet, eyes filled with sleep.<br />
“They’ll send someone,” he said.<br />
“Just send him,” she says, meaning it, too.<br />
Too young, this boy, to fight a war. Yet that’s what it is, isn’t it?<br />
Drug addicts, homies, prostitutes…<br />
Who waits for them to come home in the dark hours before dawn?<br />
Mothers…? Wives…? Children…?<br />
Do they hear the shots ring out and wonder if this time the bullet is serious?<br />
Do they care as much as she who waits?<br />
22 SCOPE <strong>2006</strong><br />
SCOPE <strong>2006</strong> 23
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