This Poem was Submitted By: Darlene A Moore On Date: 2003-07-22 23:21:29 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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When No one is Looking

Dr. Nozaull finds a large blue rubber band resting innocently upon his immaculate inlaid cherry desktop. It must have arrived bundled around the morning's mail:  the largish pile of scientific journals, medical  advertisements and referral letters stacked neatly  beside the "IN" basket next to the intercom. No one is looking. No one is standing in the hall just outside his open door. Temptation. Idly, he picks up the heavy rubber band, stretches the strand back and forth between his manicured fingers and with the practiced snap of a ten year old boy, lets fly.... The brass framed photograph of his esteemed departmental director doesn't even flinch, although hit squarely between the eyes. Dr. Nozaull sighs.  With regret he stashes his weapon of youth between the stethoscope and prescription pad inside the pocket of his white starched lab coat. And with a curious sense of accomplishment, settles back into his leather office chair, an array of patient charts sorted and ready for his most astute attention.

Copyright © July 2003 Darlene A Moore

Additional Notes:
For the child in all of us.


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