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I want to close with
maybe two last poems.

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One I have just had
fun reading, so I'm

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going to just read
it for that reason.

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It's called "You Bring
Out the Doctor in Me."

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And actually, it was written
after one of my favorite poems

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by Sandra Cisneros,
so I can't really

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totally take credit for this.

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But it's a little bit lighter
than some of my other poems

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tonight.

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This is called "You Bring
Out the Doctor in Me,

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after Sandra Cisneros."

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"You bring out the doctor
in me, the smart perfume

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of antiseptics, the
possibly unsound heart

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through the stethoscope,
the naked under this paper

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drape in me.

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You bring out the this
won't hurt a bit in me,

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the scrubs that
look like pajamas,

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the crude anatomical
diagrams, the skin

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is the largest organ in me.

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I'd let you draw my blood,
the sting of my own needles,

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the cold metal of fact in me.

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Test it for secret
love, for HIV.

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I'd die for you, to have
you in me, just you,

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no latex, just you and me.

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You bring out the
health care proxy in me.

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Do not resuscitate.

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Do not intubate me.

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You bring out the chaplain
praying in me, the IV bag

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hanging, glassy fluids in me,
the nurse in white sneakers

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toileting me, the morphine drip,
the dream of you dreaming me.

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Maybe I'm dying.

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Maybe.

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You bring out the
helplessness in me,

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the limits of knowledge in me,
the inability to cry in me.

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You bring out the doctor in me.

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You can't cure me.

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Adore me.

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Let me show you love the
only way I know how."

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