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IF WITTGENSTEIN WERE IN BOTSWANA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2010

Mark Lazenby
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Poetry/Fiction: Poems
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Palliative & Supportive Care , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , September 2010 , pp. 379
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

Her world is all that is the case.
Mottled black skin and heat-stricken eyes,
Nausea, diarrhea, and fatigue—
Rise and bear witness to logical necessity:
Granny will raise her children,
Granny,
Whose end will come at home,
Alone.
Her world is all that is the case.
N.B. “The world is all that is the case.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. London: Routledge, 1961, p. 5 (Proposition 1).