Dr. Kildare

Richard Berlin

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| November 1, 2004

Dr. Berlin is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Berlin's book How JFK Killed My Father won the Pearl Poetry Prize 2002 and was published by Pearl Editions in September 2003.

Years ago, when I still believed

Dr. Kildare could cure my father,

I stayed awake past my bedtime

to learn to be a doctor.

Now I only remember

Kildare falling in love

with his patient,

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