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Article: The Discretion of Loss.(Poem)
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- Poetry
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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THE DISCRETION OF LOSS
Only a fool would say they are perfect in grief,
the ex-linebacker divorced at twenty-six,
his roommate--a young woman confined
to motorized chair. At thirty, she labors
drawing a brush through her hair.
Bankrupt of dignity, he weeps alone,
unquietly, in the neighboring room.
Consider their lives that once had been-she
runs the length of a wooden dock,
feet slapping on well-oiled boards,
to the arms of her mother, waded out
from shore; he gleams in the abandon
of stadium lights, young bride blushing
at his name from the stands. Each night,
when he lifts his roommate from chair to bed,
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