Contributor: Reese Scott

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In the end
when time stops
and the cigarettes
turn to cancer
and grown
men cry
in hospital beds
while wives
hold their
laughter
and nurses
make knock
knock jokes
and the children
run
in and out of their
rooms
stealing their IV’s
hiding their medication
and taking their
desserts


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Reese Scott is from New York. He is currently residing in California.