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Cancer Haikus (Free verse) by poetandknowit

#20 i asked you to fight until i learned to pronounce the thing killing you #26 if these cells knew you would they keep pushing forward or apologize #31 four in the morning i miss the hospital food and the nurse's smile #40 morphine takes your pain so much left to say to you please, do not go yet #50 sometime in the night just as i walked through the door the embalmer called

god'swife 13-Nov-02/1:48 PM
Ultimately aren't you writing these poems for yourself? I believe an artist has his duty to the public, but he also has a duty to himself. Sustaining the grief in order to understand it, thus becoming a better artist and person, hopefully. I never thought of these haikus as being about cancer. They are cancer. The cancer of grief.




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