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Nursing Home, By: Gary Beck

March 19, 2026 by Gary Beck

Nursing Home, By: Gary Beck

The faces are bleak.
Their last song
played long ago.
They lie in prison bed
reluctantly awaiting
to be collected
by the death service,
the final resolution
of incapacity.

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