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74<br />
In time I will be replaced<br />
by a robotic facsimile<br />
that will never tire<br />
as I once did.<br />
You will walk and run and dance<br />
again without my support<br />
and wonder what became of me.<br />
Now I lay me down on a heap<br />
of other amputated limbs<br />
a mangled mess of bone and blood and skin<br />
missing the flex of your muscles.<br />
Maritza Rivera is a former Army Military Intelligence officer<br />
who served from June 1974 to August 1978. She is the author<br />
of About You and A Mother’s War, written during her son’s<br />
two tours in Iraq. She is also a regular contributor to Poets<br />
Responding to SB 1070, participates in the Memorial Day<br />
Writer’s Project and hosts the annual Mariposa Poetry Retreat<br />
in Waynesboro, PA.
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