Hi Barbara,
This is a fine poem!
I like the personality of this rat, a quiet sense of resignation, a sense of
acceptance, a fair bit of wisdom, and I'm starting to realise I know so
little and the poem is showing me a lot.
It's made me think of lots of things.
Thanks,
Bob
>From: Barbara Ostrander <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: sub: Laboratory Rat
>Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 19:39:08 EST
>
>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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