Thalidomide:.(A synthetic drug removed from sale because it caused abnormalities in developing fetuses.)(Poem)

Quadrant | July 1, 2006 | Copyright 
 
THALIDOMIDE 
(A synthetic drug removed from sale 
because it caused abnormalities 
in developing fetuses.) 
 
   He stands at the bar, just tall enough 
   to lean forward and be able to drink 
   his whiskey through a straw. 
   His arms and hands out-of-whack 
   with the rest of us there. 
 
   I remembered him, I told him, 
   when he was a baby in his mother's arms. 
   Her cradling him in the bus 
   we rode to school. 
   They'd get off at the hospital. 
 
   Now here he is, a grown man. 
   A ...

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