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Max wonderful Patrick
I had a similar experience the other ay when I glanced down to see a dead
mouse -(sad) then second look revealed that it was a curled up leaf
Cheers Paick
Now to snap hunt

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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Max Richards
Sent: 17 December 2008 04:26
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Subject: snap: my glaucoma

 
Snap: My Glaucoma

While we were out this afternoon,
my eye specialist, Mr Poon,
left a message on our home phone.

My wife has it linked to her mobile
which signals that there's something new.
So standing in the Westpac queue

she checked (which I couldn't do)
and heard the voice though indistinct
of Poon on my glaucoma test.

She met me outside, compassion
in her eye, 'it seems they've found in-
cipient glaucoma, darling.'

I held myself so stoically,
foreseeing disability,
and, at length, surgery.

'Let's just check the call again -
it should be clearer here outside.'
This time distinct the voice of Poon

informed us the test shows no sign 
of glaucoma. After my stoic minute 
I felt rather let down. 


Wednesday 17 December 2008

Max Richards
Doncaster, Victoria 




 


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