A. Hicks Hope

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March 06, 2011                                ISSUE: AHH-11-2 

Another Non-disappearance

I wish that I had been murdered last night,

Or kidnapped

Or mugged

Beaten to within an inch of my life,

So that now

I would only be a bloody lump

In an emergency room bed,

Clinging to the pitiful threads of my life

Only by the tubing of the drip bags.

And people would be crowded around me

Watching those drips,

Watching for the snapping of those threads.

People concerned with my life because of the near-death

Or even death of me.

But No!

The threads of my life are as slack as ever.

And I am still here,

Eating breakfast at my kitchen table

That has only one chair.

MWC – 12/12/08

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