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If you're not going to take the holistic medicine route, then maybe we can interest you in a personal chemical warfare experience. Sounds like your kind of thing? Well, maybe methotrexate is the chemo agent just right for you.
This poem called METHOTREXATE is one of the poems in the cancer poems section of the Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection which is hosted at two locations, genghislotus.com and zenvirus.com/genghislotus/. This poem is by Hugh Cook, author of the medical memoir Cancer Patient, the full text of which is available to read for free online. |
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Big brown garbage bag of stuff. Swollen poison Thick as yellow urine. Pissing into my system. I want to scrub away the image With strawberries Sweetened with sunlight. |
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This cancer poem touches on the subject of chemotherapy with methotrexate. A chapter relating to this subject can be found in the online medical memoir Cancer Patient.
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of Cancer Patient: The author assesses the chemotherapy process, in particular with reference to the question of literary productivity. The author writes about the relationship between cancer and creativity. In brief, there is none. Cancer does not impact on creativity. Click to read |
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