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MUSED Literary Magazine.
Poetry

They Said He Would Be Fine

Linda Leedy Schneider

They said he would be fine, but different,
my grandchild with the small deletion
on his 17th chromosome. Such a tiny part
of the whole like a tainting mouse bite
taken from a loaf of crusty bread.

Perhaps that bite held the gene for sadness,
He is now seven and sunshine.