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THE END

 

All that remains 

of my mother 

Are memories 

of her dying. 

 

She was rushed 

to the hospital

because of an obstruction 

in her stomach. 

 

But there were complications 

after her surgery 

and she spent the next three months 

in the ICU 

in a semiconscious state

of mind. 

 

Her surgeon refused 

to open her up again 

saying that 

she would most likely die 

on the operating table. 

 

The doctor 

did not say 

but I suspect 

the blockage 

was some kind 

of cancer. 

 

When I visited her 

in the ICU 

she asked me 

to take an imaginary cigarette 

from her hand. 

And put it out 

for her.

 

she thought 

the cigarette 

was real 

 

Her doctor said 

that electrolyte changes 

were putting her 

in the semiconscious state 

of mind. 

 

In ninety days, 

all of this would be over. 



(My mother died in 1972 at the age of 63. Working class people don't live into 
their 90s like the bourgeosie) 



 
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