This poem is taken from Stand 222, 17(2) May - June 2019.
Taboo
My wife is a home health care nurse. She visits patients in their home.
One day, she visited a man in a poor area who she had not attended to before. She was there to change a catheter.
‘You have good hands,’ he said afterward. ‘How long have you been a nurse?’
‘Thirty years,’ she said.
‘I guess you went to nursing school right outta college.’
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One day, she visited a man in a poor area who she had not attended to before. She was there to change a catheter.
‘You have good hands,’ he said afterward. ‘How long have you been a nurse?’
‘Thirty years,’ she said.
‘I guess you went to nursing school right outta college.’
...
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