Some of my friends
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* Daniel Thomas Moran

*   Art and medicine
*   arts in health/arts and health
*   community arts
*   dentist

> Some of my friends
> 
> are becoming concerned.

> About lumps where there
> 
> were none before.
> 
> Some thing which
> 
> does not look right.
> 
> Their comforts undermined by
> 
> pains sharp or dull.
> 
> The need to draw breath
> 
> into deeper places.

> Some are feeling vulnerable.

> Their eyes are clouding,
> 
> words appearing to dissolve,
> 
> sounds soft and muffled.
> 
> Some of my friends
> 
> need procedures and
> 
> further testing.
> 
> They will have to
> 
> travel to someplace
> 
> far and unfamiliar
> 
> and wait.

> They will try to recall
> 
> when sleep came easy.

> Now they might have
> 
> to be kept overnight,
> 
> have blood let by
> 
> girls named Betty.
> 
> Lie beneath beams
> 
> which will turn their
> 
> skin to rice paper.
> 
> All of their functions
> 
> will be distilled
> 
> to graphs and digits.

> Some of my friends
> 
> seem to be wearing out.
> 
> Their pink becoming grey.
> 
> Their tightness loosened.
> 
> Some will be told today.

## Footnotes

*   Competing interests None.

*   Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.