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Three days since the biopsy surgery,
when my left leg jerks
suddenly,
up and down on the mattress.

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The right leg still lies
limply
like a dead log
rotting into the forest floor.

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Scanned Kitten – Sleeping with one leg up. Image from Art-top (Artem Topchily).
CC AS-A 3.0 Unported License
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2003-06-14_Scanned_kitten.jpg

Decaying Log. Decaying beech log in Marselisborg Forests, Denmark.
Photo by RhinoMind. CC AS-A 3.0 Unported License..
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Decaying_log.jpg.

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