MALPRACTICE 

They’re donors

not doctors,

but don’t know it.

Their too busy grafting

their own wounds

on to us too see

that their condolences

aren’t a healing flesh.

They’re just not.

Because we’re not

burn victims awaiting

some new tissue

like a salve. We’re not.

But no one

understands this,

least of all us.

Loss looks different

on different people.

And so, kindness

in our case,

feels more like malpractice

than a cure, ‘cause we can’t

feel flesh that isn’t 

there to feel.