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November 18, 2010 in Depression: mild, Poem | Tags: congestive heart failure, death, dying, failing, swollen, tired of going on | 3 comments
my heart is going
slowly now
it gave a good go of it
beating and all
those moments of bitter retreat
ebb and flow of blood
coming in and out of spite
until
slowly now
the organ is engorged
swollen, dying of itself
pumping painfully
ruefully spasming
giving a good go of it
slowly now
Ramblings of a Medicated Lady: Words of Woe by Loria Taylor 
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