Overhearing Poems

the nurse speaks

everyone's in pain
some have just learned to hide it
better than others.

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the daughter speaks

don't argue with him
you're just egging him on more
let him die in peace

truth

the older I get
the more it's true
I can't finish a poem
without someone dying

age

many old poems 
have the language of flowers 
that have never bloomed