“Don’t make him nervous,” the doctor warned. “He vomits right away.”
Mr. Burns huddled in a pink plastic chair in a corner of the conference room as the conversation ebbed and flowed around him. Eyes downcast, he rolled and unrolled a blank piece of paper as his mother proudly described how he would have his own room for the first time.
He would have a new bedroom set and home-cooked meals, the trappings of an ordinary life. She reminded the hospital officials not to forget his favorite shorts, the ones with the elastic waists — “That’s been packed, Mrs. Burns,” they reassured her — and the medals he had won for walking and running in the Special Olympics.
“That’s important to him,” said Mr. Massey, Mr. Burns’s uncle. “That will remind him of his time here.”
The hospital staff handed over Mr. Burns’s birth certificate, his Georgia state identification card, his Medicaid card and his prescriptions to the Arc of Macon representatives, Mr. Burns’s new caretakers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/us/en ... wanted=all
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Re: Don't make me nervous.
awake from a dream
with st stephan and the brides of jesus
blood throbbing in my ears
hearing every beat the flushandrush of the blood
short of breath
breathing hard
what was I dreaming of
last thoughts
last thought
listen to the music
ram a lama ding dong
poem inspired by breathe
with st stephan and the brides of jesus
blood throbbing in my ears
hearing every beat the flushandrush of the blood
short of breath
breathing hard
what was I dreaming of
last thoughts
last thought
listen to the music
ram a lama ding dong
poem inspired by breathe
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