A Quilt for David by Steven Reigns

Author:Steven Reigns
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: City Lights Publishers

The chairs your

patients sat in were sold by

Dolphin Dental Supply

and purchased by other dentists.

Maybe one was sold

to a tattoo shop—

it could still be used, twenty

years later, when positive men

self-appoint bio-hazard tattoos.

After the nightclub closed,

your office became

a pool hall and arcade.

Two years, ten months, and twenty-nine days

from diagnosis to death,

David kept practicing.

Retired at forty to die.

From diagnosis to death,

was scared of small-town rumors and small-town mentality.

Retired at forty to die.

He used an alias at doctor’s offices hours away from his home.

Was scared of small-town rumors and small-town mentality.

David said hiding his diagnosis was “lonely and isolating.”

He used an alias at doctor’s offices hours away from his home.

Kimberly, secretly sexually active, points her finger at David.

David said hiding his diagnosis was “lonely and isolating.”

She pointed her finger at him.

From diagnosis to death was

two years, ten months, and twenty-nine days.

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