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Mama Mada
A stepladder In a White Room
by Richard Price
A stepladder in a white room –
the beginning of an alphabet.
That was… forty years ago.
That was
twenty years ago.
That was tomorrow was it? Is it
the beginning?
I caught my fingers in the hinge.
I caught my daughter’s finger in the hinge.
Watch the, watch that simple mechanism.
It’s only aluminium but watch the hinge.
A swan on a dark loch –
the end of an alphabet.
I am not… visiting a friend.
I am not
going into that hospital.
I am visiting a friend. I am so
going into that hospital.
Is it the end? Is it
the simple end?
A step ladder in a white room.
A swan on a dark loch.
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