At the Cancer Clinic Summary
Ted Kooser

At the Cancer Clinic Summary

Ted Kooser's poem “At the Cancer Clinic” is told from the point of view of a patient in a waiting room observing another patient. The woman the narrator describes is frail and too weak to walk on her own; she is being helped into the examining area by two women, who accompany her on either side. The patients in the waiting room, including the poem's narrator, marvel at the ill woman's determination and...

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