"condition" has connotations where I work, too - "general state of being, or of physical or mental health" - that I think work equally well with the sense of the word in your poem. Maybe because I've worked in hospitals for so very very long? I had a mental image of "a hospital spokesman reported her condition as stable but critical" or similar. :-)
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Date: 2005-07-25 09:23 am (UTC)