Post Prostate Surgery by Ann M. DeVenezia

This man lies in his hospital bed not speaking, an intravenous in his arm gallons of Sorbitol flushing him clean Pink-tinged bloody urine drips through the tube into a thick see-through bag His wife of fifty years sits nearby writing this poem for him words full of anxiety and hope She stares at the thin plastic catheter praying for pure clear liquid dismayed by his colorful display.

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