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Thread #79424 Message #1442074
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
23-Mar-05 - 07:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: How Terri Schiavo Will Die
Subject: RE: BS: How Terri Schiavo Will Die
Martin Gibson, you leave MY children and YOUR children out of this. They aren't germane to the discussion going on in Florida between a woman who to all intents and purposes went quiet to that good night 15 years ago. It's between she and her maligned husband and their doctors, not between any of them and her insane parents. They'll probably have Terry stuffed and mounted after she dies, then they can go on talking to her and for her just like before.
'OUT, OUT--' The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood, Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it. And from there those that lifted eyes could count Five mountain ranges one behind the other Under the sunset far into Vermont. And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled, As it ran light, or had to bear a load. And nothing happened: day was all but done. Call it a day, I wish they might have said To please the boy by giving him the half hour That a boy counts so much when saved from work. His sister stood beside them in her apron To tell them 'Supper'. At the word, the saw, As if to prove saws knew what supper meant, Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap-- He must have given the hand. However it was, Neither refused the meeting. But the hand! The boy's first outcry was a rueful laugh. As he swung toward them holding up the hand Half in appeal, but half as if to keep The life from spilling. Then the boy saw all-- Since he was old enough to know, big boy Doing a man's work, though a child at heart-- He saw all spoiled. 'Don't let him cut my hand off The doctor, when he comes. Don't let him, sister!' So. But the hand was gone already. The doctor put him in the dark of ether. He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath. And then -- the watcher at his pulse took fright. No one believed. They listened at his heart. Little -- less -- nothing! -- and that ended it. No more to build on there. And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.
OK, I think that's more than enough. I could delete Martin if it were just Martin, but it isn't. Feel free to to carry on the Sciavo discussion in another thread. -Joe Offer-