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Medical Marriage
by
Martin Kohn, Ph.D.
Since she had always dreamt
of making love on a beach
and he was dreaming of furrowed fields
they figured it was time
And as soon as the youngest fell off
to his nest below their bed
and the events of the day had
drifted to the corners of the room
they took the deeply planted
signs to be what they meant to be
and embraced
Later, after two more phone calls
they marvelled at their jerry-built lives
at the Rubegoldbergian blueprint
they swore once again to revise
and sang the praises of soundly sleeping children
answering machines and other small gifts
only God could have devised
Martin Kohn, Ph.D.,. Human Values in Medicine Program, Northeastern Ohio Universities
College of Medicine, 4209 State Route 44, PO Box 95, Rootstown, OH, 44272-0095.
First published in Annals of Internal Medicine, December 15, 1996, p 954. Republished
with permission of the author and the American College of Physicians.
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