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Textu
Fady A. Joudah, M.D., a physician at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, is a nationally and
internationally known poet and translator of poetry. Each poem in Textu, Joudah's 2014
poetry collection published by Copper Canyon Press, was composed on a cellular phone's
text message screen.
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I laugh all the time to keep from crying!
Next B-day will be on the local news
My body's shifted my tears
to my nose
which makes
my great-grandson queasy
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This is no retirement
you have your body still
symptoms to report
visits to keep meds to refill
referrals bill after bill relapse recovery
full-time dying
Hospice Hymn
You live despite of what
we do to you not because of it
Stay home
keep our gadgets
We'll come when the going's tough
Letting go is in your hands
Time
It was last night in his sleep
You have helped him to the best two years
those toolshed days
Do you know for sure Doc
if your last words to him
were kind
B y Fa d y A . J o u d a h , M . D .
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