Her Looks

[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).

Address 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

PII: S0196-0644(08)01627-2

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.07.049

© 2008 American College of Emergency Physicians. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.