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The CallSomeone must die
When I am called
In the wee hours.
Arise from slumber
And dash pell-mell
To practice nursing
In surgical suite, there
Treat a Crisis; in Chinese, a
Disaster?
Or Opportunity
For family to over-
Turn tragedy in
Gift
of heart
of lung
of more
To: some unknown
Anonymous need
From: one intimate treasure
Beyond needing.
And, with this
Title to Previously Owned Organ, a
Lottery ticket, the jackpot
One more (day...? year...? lifetime...) with
daughter, son,
father, mother,
sister, brother,
husband, wife.
Bittersweet life,
When someone dies
And I am called
In the wee hours.
Thomas J. Macheski, R.N.
January 20, 2000
