Care is a relative term

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No wonder you’ve come
�to the E.R. Why didn’t you
�take the medicine prescribed
�for you. So careless.

You couldn’t afford it?
�Again, how thoughtless.
�If you can’t afford it,
�you shouldn’t get sick.

No insurance? We can’t
�help you. We’re not
�in business for people
�without good insurance.

Your doctor can care
�for you. No personal
�doctor? We just don’t know
�what’s wrong with you.

Except, it’s not our problem:
�So many invisible people
�like you die every day and
�we couldn’t care less.

Marge Piercy is the author of twenty books of poetry, most recently On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light, plus seventeen novels, a memoir, a short story collection, and five nonfiction books.