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Electronic pages – Poetry and prose
Poem
An epic note
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Epic was mercifully short,
120 characters devoid of emotion,
to let me know that my patient suddenly died
on Sunday morning after Father's Day.
The email was waiting on Monday morning,
ensuring that I would open the secure
twenty word note
not on the day of dying,
but alone in my office,
taking away my choice to answer a page,
to pick up a phone,
to have …