Social Admission

[Ann Emerg Med. 2008;51:680.]

	It wasn't what he planned
	Or thought
	Not death, exactly
	(Because it comes for us all)
	Prepared for a sudden stop somewhere
	The last beat
	A graceful exit
	The card house collapsing
	On itself
	With a breath...
	But not this forgetting
	His children exhausted
	In the long twilight
	When sleep will not come

Address for correspondence: Rebecca Jeanmonod, MD, Albany Medical College, Department of Emergency Medicine, 47 New Scotland Avenue, Mail Code 139, Albany, NY 12208; 518-399-9612, fax 518-262-3236

PII: S0196-0644(07)01564-8

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.09.023

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