Unknown Wishes

“No talk about prognosis since before round
one.”
Now hospitalized with infection, round three
had not been won.

A short conversation later, his goals clearly
defined.
“No more cancer treatment,” he said as he
declined.

“Would round three have been endured” I
thought in my mind
“if this conversation occurred in three months
less time?”

Gabe Hooper

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