DEAR PAUL RYAN

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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From: Lawrence Landweber <larry.landweber () gmail com>
Date: Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 2:50 PM
Subject: DEAR PAUL RYAN
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Cc: Lawrence Landweber <larry.landweber () gmail com>


Dave
Here is the poem for IP.
Regards and thanks
Larry

DEAR PAUL RYAN
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*by Jacqueline Jules*,
After you’ve carried out your promises
to the American people,
I hope you’ll come to the chemo clinic with me.

Wait in my seat—rigid blue plastic,
stainless steel frame, comforting
as the flicker of fluorescent tubes
from the popcorn ceiling.

Notice how the legs of your chair
wobble on uneven green tile
while you listen
on a dying cell phone
to a bean counter at Blue Cross
explain why you don’t deserve
the drug your doctor prescribed.

Feel the bones
up and down your spine
burst into flames.

Then you can come home with me.
Sip canned soup at my table,
littered with pre-existing bills
for care no longer covered.

And you can tell me again
why you are so pleased
to be the face of the political party
which proclaims all life is precious
(no matter how tiny) as long
as no taxes are raised to protect it.


*Jacqueline Jules
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is
the author of the poetry chapbooks *Field Trip to the Museum* and *Stronger
Than Cleopatra*. Her work has appeared in over 100 publications
including *TheNewVerse.News
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Potomac Review, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Little Patuxent Review*, and
*Gargoyle*. She is also the author of 40 books for young readers.



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