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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/931424-Cuba-a-thought
by Rhyssa Author IconMail Icon
Rated: 18+ · Book · Contest Entry · #1912256
a descent into poetry insanity
#931424 added March 24, 2018 at 11:53pm
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Cuba: a thought
we bleed doctors into
the world.

they learn that doctors
are more than their tools,
because here, they starve
for supplies,
so that when the call comes
(which it will) that a struggling
nation needs our help,
our doctors only
want to help, and in
the middle of Africa
where they struggle to find a clean
place to treat patients who
die in ooze and filth,
they marvel
at the essential drugs
(they wanted them,
over and over) we cannot give them.

and so our older doctors bleed away,
and our younger doctors grow like
dandelions, strong and
never dependent,
and always drifting away.

line count: 24

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