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A poem written during the experience detailed in the medical memoir Cancer Patient, and written at a time when remission had been achieved and post-radiotherapy eyesight problems had not yet made their appearance.
CANCER PATIENT cancer poem in Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection, a selection of poems free to read online. Webmaster for this site is poet Hugh Cook, born in Britain, educated in New Zealand, and the author of, amongst other works, the fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness. |
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Cancer is gray bananas,
An intravenous drip Diluting my soul with sickness. Exiled from my Japan, I find my life Made mythological, The heartbeats of my eternity Juiceless, Dessicated, Compressed into photographs, Flat hammer evidence, Fossils. Zen rocks adrift In the photochemical smog ... My wife and baby. Cancer is exile. And I, I am the cancer patient, Waiting for my statistical resolution, My life Hesitating on the cool gray edge of never, On the brink of deletion ... In the year of many needles I endure my altered state Until a frog, Symbol of transformation, Signals my birthday resurrection, Cancer commuted to chocolate cake. With this kiss I transform you. In the golden temples of the imagination The bells of silence Reverberate With waiting voices. |
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CANCER POEMS: poetry about having cancer, about pressing on with life, about facing death and thinking about mortality, and about suffering damage from radiation therapy, this being in the form of brain damage and partial blindness. Don't miss the praise poem for Saddam Hussein, SADDAM IS GUILTY
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CANCER MEMOIR: read the full text of the brain cancer memoir Cancer Patient free online. Initial problems, diagnosis, neurosurgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and the achievement of remission. Read free online or buy as a paperback book from Amazon.com.
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CANCER BLOG: following remission, brain cancer seems to have returned. Further investigations follow. The author investigates the mechanism of his death. The author's deteriorating vision turns out to be the consequence of radiation therapy, not the return of cancer. Blog entries deal with survivorhood issues including dealing with degraded vision and with brain damage caused by chemo and radiation. The online entries are part of the literary miscellany This Is A Picture Of Your God, available from Amazon.com.
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