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AFTER I WAS DIAGNOSED cancer poem in Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection, a selection of poems free to read online. The Genghis Lotus poems are hosted at two locations, genghislotus.com and zenvirus.com/genghis-lotus/. Webmaster for both sites 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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After I was diagnosed
My body Was hoisted above the city. Confetti clips stretched my fragments From mountain to mountain, My mosaic Gray with gristle, white with bone, Pink With arterial cherry blossom. The Committee on Public Decency Complained About certain aspects of the view. And so I dominated, A threat which might fall But maybe not. Later, I lost the limelight, My public distracted By beached whales, biowar babies, Chicken flu plague threats, Ponzi scheme panics, Giraffe-flavored liquorice fritters And alcoholic concrete. Then hobbyists discovered My connectivity. Riddled with illicit junctions, I am alive with bootleg MP3s, Swarming with patent contests, Amok with litigation. My head is a public telephone. God broadbands in and asks me for my wisdom. Which is this: It is better to be dissected than forgotten. |
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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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