This poem represents a number of patients I have in recovery who really want to be better but have so many setbacks for so many reasons. I hope it expresses the balance of obstacles and hopefulness

Silk, Hugh, MD

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Streams of Consciousness Volume 2 Issue 2 Article 14 July 2019 Again Hugh Silk MD University of Massachusetts Medical School Let us know how access to this document benefits you. Follow this and additional works at: https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/soc  Part of the Digital Humanities Commons, Medical Humanities Commons, and the Poetry Commons Recommended Citation Silk H. Again. Streams of Consciousness 2019; 2(2):1038. https://doi.org/10.7191/soc.2019.1038. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/soc/vol2/iss2/14 Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This material is brought to you by eScholarship@UMMS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Streams of Consciousness by an authorized administrator of eScholarship@UMMS. For more information, please contact Lisa.Palmer@umassmed.edu. Again  I used, again I had sex with my dealer, again I got endocarditis, again I miss my son, again I don’t feel 25, again I’m lonely, again I used because I’m depressed, again I think I’m pregnant, again Can you check for HIV and Hep C, again? I want to be well, again I lost weight, again I feel old, again My family has had it, again I’m back on methadone, again I really, really want to be better,  Again. 1Silk: AgainPublished by eScholarship@UMMS, 2019

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