I ask your doctor
of infectious disease if she's
read Williams
he cured
sick babies I tell her and
begin describing spring
and all
she's looking at the wall
now the floor
now your chart
now the door
never
heard of him she says
but I can't stop explaining
how important this is
I need to know your doctor
believes in the tenacity of nature
to endure
I'm past his heart
attack
his strokes and now
as if
etching the tombstone myself I find
I can't remember the date
he died or even
the year
of what now
are we the pure products and what
does that even mean pure
isn't it
obvious
we are each our own culture
alive with the virus that's waiting
to unmake us
from: The Year of What Now. Copyright 2013.
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