a shadow
on an x-ray
of my mother's chest.
she thought the worst.
she called
everyone in Philadelphia
to give them
the bad news
that she was dying.
but the second x-ray,
showed nothing.
an aberration, a flash
of light, something,
but it was nothing after all.
so when i visited her,
i asked her why
she was still crying,
why so blue.
and she said,
what if
the first x-ray had
been true.
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