Thanks, Doug. I had hoped this poem could stand on its own, but wasn't certain it did so.
Hence the commentary and link to the trailer. If I were to publish it without the title and
inscription but within a disability studies context, I think it might work for readers who
took the speaker of the first two lines as a commander of an emergency medical team
while assuming the last three lines were spoken by a hospital administrator. When I
initially registered the personal resonance, I remember saying to myself, "It's a tough
little work."
Barry
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:36:50 -0700, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>Sharp, Barry. I like the way you manage to both reflect a film, but
>get something that doesnt demand we know it.....
>
>Doug
>On 20-Jan-10, at 4:02 PM, Barry Alpert wrote:
>
>> GUARD #47
>>
>> via Filip Renc
>>
>>
>> Get a stretcher,
>> understand? Nothing!
>> A letter--
>> read it:
>> disability after they examine you.
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