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DOCTOR by DAVID IGNATOW

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE PATIENT CRIES, GIVE ME BACK FEELING
Last Line: AVIDLY WITHOUT PAUSE
Subject(s): PHYSICIANS; WIT & HUMOR;
What am I if not a pattern of manhood?
What should I be if not a dimension of silence?
I have suffered my pattern, and the last of it
will be the beginning of life in the ground
of ants and grubs or in workings of the rain.
I will have become indifferent and detached,
without fear, no longer envious but happy
as a spark at night. I will be gone into the dark,
my real mother.



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