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Fall 2006
Volume 06, Number 1

Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine

Poem

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Henrietta Pratt, 80, Has a Surprise for You

Felicia Nimue Ackerman
Brown University

This poem first appeared in Ragged Edge Online and is reprinted here by permission.

I seldom go outside my door.
I'm 80 and can barely walk.
The girl upstairs thinks that's so sad,
She's always dropping by to talk.
Her thoughts are shining in her face:
"Poor thing, she's old and all alone
And grateful for the company
She never could get on her own."
She doesn't know that all my friends
Are with me in a better place.
There's neither old nor young nor ill
Nor healthy, here in cyberspace.

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