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Two of Them

Jack Coulehan, MD

15 October 1997 | Volume 127 Issue 8 (Part 1) | Page 651

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The old Russian couple
in adjoining chairs
teeter toward each other
and tell me everything.

She demonstrates the jolt
at the edge of sleep
by jabbing a finger at me,
vindicatively.

He shows his scalp-it crawls
with emptiness at night
and keeps him up. There,
he bats it behind his ear.

I think he sold diamonds
for a living, enough
to convince himself, he
said once, it's not much

of a life. At the end
of her list is Need sleep
underlined twice, and What
happened to my eyes?

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