"did you see this closing in?
did you prepare yourself for the
unfathomable, for the day
for the day when this train
went completely off the rails
and everything went up in flames
and nothing here would ever be the same"
This is prophylaxis, a practiced absence, a safer distance. He is a fine clinician to diagnose this, a sound decision. This is a family practice, it's anesthetic, it's nonreactive. This is a termination, a fine resemblance, but no relation.