Health and Illness – Webbish6 https://webbish6.com Jeannine Hall Gailey's Poetry Blog Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:47:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 44757611 https://webbish6.com/1902/ https://webbish6.com/1902/#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:47:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/1902/ Well, recovering from pneumonia at home, I figured it was a good time to peruse the new Pebble Lake Review, which has a new issue on Health and Illness. You’ll find a couple of poems by me there, and great poems by Michelle Bitting, Hsiao-Shih (Raechel) Lee, D.A. Powell and Franz Wright, among others.

I was also thinking how this poem seems so very timely. How many times can a girl be told she’d make a great experimental subject by doctors in hospitals before it begins to affect her psyche?

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On the plus side, the doctor told me I have a lovely singing voice. She said she’d never had a patient sing at the hospital before. I guess I sing when I’m sick and stressed.

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