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          On a clinical mountain
     I was fired from my job as a dental assistant
 (justly)
          and pushed by that clinical outrageousness,
               I wrote my first poem, titled:

                    'Ephemeral Uproar'
                         And pa
                         tientl
                         y
                         waited
                         And
                         dri
                         ppi
                         ng 
                         dow
                         n t
                         hos
                         e s
                         ton
                         y c
                         ons
                         tru
                         cti
                         ons