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Your Song

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"So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do" -
I never forgot hearing that in the operating room
before the surgery on my fractured hip socket
when I was twenty-nine. My eight-month old son
cried at the sight of me when my wife brought him
to the hospital; my face was cut and sutured
and there were bits of windshield glass in my skin.
Today he is almost twenty-nine and I sit
beside him in an orthopedic surgeon's waiting room,
his ankle in a cast, his crutches on the chair arm.
Surgery was a week ago. The trauma was from
a basketball game rather than a car crash,
and to an Achilles tendon rather than a hip. His wife
is away so I have brought him, there is music
playing in the waiting room and here it is again:
"My gift is my song and this one is for you."
The first and last lines are from "Your Song", lyrics by Bernie Taupin, music by Elton John.

A slice of life piece about coincidences.
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