Rash by Viviana Abnur | One Poem Only
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Rash
Viviana Abnur
Everything I know about death
I learned the hard way
when I saw you go by on the stretcher
to intensive therapy
I was an atheist like you and I only saw
a slight and strange body
pass at the speed of light
is it that perhaps we live confused
or we are just light and nothing else
because I suddenly knew in an instant
that you were not
in that body
they took you to the Emergency room
like a war trophy
there was a rush for the doctors to arrive
there was a…
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