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Article: Thalidomide:.(A synthetic drug removed from sale because it caused abnormalities in developing fetuses.)(Poem)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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THALIDOMIDE
(A synthetic drug removed from sale
because it caused abnormalities
in developing fetuses.)
He stands at the bar, just tall enough
to lean forward and be able to drink
his whiskey through a straw.
His arms and hands out-of-whack
with the rest of us there.
I remembered him, I told him,
when he was a baby in his mother's arms.
Her cradling him in the bus
we rode to school.
They'd get off at the hospital.
Now here he is, a grown man.
A ...