issue 24 > light verse > mandel
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24-Hour Urine Sample
by Charlotte Mandel
It’s hard to keep one’s easy insouciance
dealing all day with medical nuisance--
salvaging liquid warm and buttercup-
gold, transferring from disposable cup
to jug and to refrigerator shelf
next to milk and pale yellow wine of Guelph
renown that I’ll pour down the sink
rather than ever ever again drink.