pencils down, no closure
look at my mother
who almost never speaks
existing but not living
I’m in the hospice room
three days of visiting
she only says my name once
hospice nurse calls in from another location
involved with an assisted suicide
my mother would never want that
sometimes she eats and drinks water
but after I flew home to California
she stopped eating, water unswallowed
waiting to see whether this changes
or if I need to tell the hospice nurse
to begin the morphine treatment
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when I patted her hand covered by blanket
she briefly opened her eyes
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