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On Mon, 11 Nov 1996 22:43:37 -0500 Marvin Giles <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
>I was sitting beside the entrance to a shop.
>It was a warm sunny place I chose to stop.
>My mind was busy with thoughts and plans.
>My senses filled with sights, and the soft
>flutter of waving fans.
>Then a voice said that I must move.
>I had no choice, it said with a shove.
>The sun, replaced by bitter pain, the
>knowlege of loss was back again.
>The happy moment was lost to me,
>and from that gloom I could not break free.
>Till a friend came and saw the one
>inside this thing called Parkinsons.
>
>So, before a chair with wheels you move,
>take care. Be aware of the person sitting there.
>For though the feelings don't always show
>a careless push may cause tears to flow.
>
Your poem says a lot.

My wife works as an aide for a rehab center. She saw the poem and asked
me to print it out for her to take in to work.

Jon Meyer 39/1 ([log in to unmask])