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Every Minute I Can Get

Janet Kuypers, 06/28/06

drove seventy-seven miles
to see my mother for twenty-seven minutes

we couldn’t stay long
but I wanted to see her once
on her last day in town
before she dies

it was twenty-one weeks
since I have been to her home
which was ten weeks
since she was in the hospital
for six weeks
in her first round of chemo

I drove fifty-five miles to the hospital
during both of her rounds of chemo

and now that she stopped the failing treatment
two rounds of chemo was enough
for my mom to know

so after she’s been out of the hospital
for thirty-three days

and she leaves tomorrow
I don’t know, maybe eight am
less than sixteen hours from now

but she’s leaving for home
so she can relax before she dies

I can’t guess a number
on how long she’ll live
I can only tell you the numbers
of her red blood cell
and white blood cell counts
details about the hemoglobin
I could tell you her platelets are up

but they’re only numbers
but now that she’s leaving,
that’s all I have left

so she leaves tomorrow
one thousand, three hundred
seventy-six miles,
six blocks

away from me

so call me selfish
but I’ll settle
for seventy-seven miles
one more time
even if it is to only see her
for twenty-seven minutes

I’ll take every minute I can get

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