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Carmelita is dead but 
her husband still visits

four long years of dying hard
is a habit hard

to break              He haunted the place

sat by her side
kissed her bruised
and swollen face

rubbed her feet
sang to her
washed her
changed her

Depends 
fed her

Married forty-three years

I pass him late at night
outside the double doors

He’s chain-smoking
Susan Kelly-DeWitt | Mudlark No. 38
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