This poem is taken from Stand 219, 16(3) August - September 2018.

Robert Clinton Two Poems
Old Friends

I could have come injured. I might have had a scratch
or a bruise or buds sprung up in my lungs     

but I own too much to be sick, and you are no nurse,
and won’t stay for blood or eventualities.     
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