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Senile
February 25, 2016
Pneumonia? Malaria?
The child lies, alone he ponders.
Watch TV, eat chowder,
maybe take medicine.
“Sir?” the nurse asks the old, grizzled man
“Mother,” he asks, “Can I go home?”
© Beth S., Marblehead, MA
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This is written in a Korean poetic form called sijo.