Dear Barbara,
I found this very powerful -but I'm not sure it is a poem -it strikes me
more as a short piece of prose.
Does that matter? Dicuss, using one side of the paper....
Kind regards,
grasshopper
From: Barbara Ostrander
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 12:39 AM
Subject: [THE-WORKS] sub: Laboratory Rat
Laboratory Rat
What I have come to know is this;
in the end it's not my life you're fighting for
but the cure for cancer -- two very different things.
And should I fail this protocol, too,
I will again be set adrift
to find my own way through this maze
of consent forms and experimental treatments,
I'll again be left "grasping for straws," as you
so kindly put it.
BBO
© 2-3-03
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