Once we talked to
friends of their
children, their
houses, their
careers, their
plans and dreams;
of the books
they were writing,
films they had seen,
art they had created,
gardens they had grown.
Now we talk to
friends of their
illnesses, their
operations, their
diseases, their
pills and potions
and prognoses,
of who has died
and who will die
soon.
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