Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 3 , Page 401, March 2009

Her Looks

  • Shari J. Welch, MD

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Shari J. Welch, MD, Intermountain Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, 36 South State Street 16th Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84111-1633; 801-442-3592

Utah Emergency Physicians and the Intermountain Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, Salt Lake City, UT

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[Ann Emerg Med. 2009;53:401.]

They Say: Take care of your looks
or you'll lose them.
You don't get to keep them.
You have to preserve them.
How sad: Somebody lost them.
(Their looks)

She gives hers away.
Her furtive look.
The longing and the craving,
the panic and the paranoia
(for illicit contents
in a brown paper bag).

She gives hers away.
For the sweet
rushing of the world
at a breakneck pace.
Senseless euphoria
supersedes
everything.

She doesn't get to keep it.
She cannot preserve it.
It is the gift of the needle:
False hope and happiness
into her veins
and stealing (her looks).

PII: S0196-0644(08)01627-2

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.07.049

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 3 , Page 401, March 2009

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