Humanities
Creative works
The choking game
Stooped over his featherweight
form
One of the crowd
Rhythmically compresses the
naked chest
As I stand in the doorway
Watching and thinking…
Something is terribly wrong
With a nine year old heart The Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical
Needing resuscitation, Research (AHFMR) is proud to announce the
His body statuesque on the results of the 2008 Interdisciplinary Team
trauma board
But for the bounce
Grants competition*.
Of each external beat,
His face serene, cherubic almost,
This multimillion dollar initiative provides opportunities
But for the fallen halo of red for teams of researchers from different research
That rings his slender neck disciplines and institutions to collaboratively address
As a jewelry of choking tracks important health research questions.
From the bathroom’s continuous
cloth,
Cascading from the metallic Congratulations to the following team, one
dispenser of five successful teams in the competition:
Where he wrapped his neck
In the linen loop
To reach a nine year old nirvana Improving the Efficient and Equitable Care of Patients
In a hanging asphyxiation — with Chronic Medical Conditions Interdisciplinary
Autoeroticism in the absence of Chronic Disease Collaboration (ICDC)
air —
A prepubescent, orgasmic height The team will study new health Services – Edmonton; Finlay McAlister,
From which there is only descent, policies and programs that will UA; Lindsay McLaren, UC; Kevin
McLaughlin, UC; Ronald Plotnikoff, UA;
A crowd that silently disperses help patients with (or at risk of
Mark Rosenberg, Queen’s University
around me, developing) health conditions