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Barium

If you can't marry 'em,
Barium.
By chad sanders

Barium #56

Oh, thick chalkiness, oh white heaviness.
I do not long to drink you down
but the nurse is quite firm.
Oh, barium--you are not delicious.
You speed down my throat and fill my stomach
with an eagerness that surprises and frightens me.
Oh, barium--I can feel you coursing through my intestines,
serving your purpose, doing your job
with amazing efficiency and speed.
Oh, barium--I know you will be leaving me soon.
We will always have the x-ray,
and that afternoon under the lead apron together.
By Liza Purdy

BARIUM

Unmelting, ambivalent companion:
your radiopacity probes our shortcomings;
can explain speech loss,
may also -- heavy hearted --
delineate an apple core of cancer.

Not for firework green or luminous pigment,
nor as the taste of Harrogate water,
but in alimentary suspension --
that is how you are recalled:
the white pawn of diagnosis.
By Mark Cassidy

Barium #56

Chalk white diagnosis
Liquid bowel soul,
purged to patina.
By concupiscent_curves

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