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IN THE WAITING ROOM by PATRICIA GOEDICKE

First Line: BUT STILL, CARRYING MY ILLNESS TO THE HOSPITAL
Last Line: I STOP POKING AT MYSELF, ODDLY %BUT FINALLY RELIEVED, AT HOME

Poem Sources:

NO MORE MASKS! AN ANTHOLOGY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN POETS. NEWLY REVISED AND EXPANDED.
  HOWE, FLORENCE (ED.)
  (1993)
 
THE TONGUES WE SPEAK; NEW AND SELECTED POEMS.
  GOEDICKE, PATRICIA
  (1989)
 



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