Words of Inspiration
The Chemo Blues
by Debra Paul
I started the chemo
I was warned of the news.
All my hair would fall out.
I’d be bald from all views.
The C Word
by Ann-Marie Clark
It lay in my palm
Like a piece of barbed wire
While I watched myself
Bleed
Julie Ann in the Bone Marrow Unit, Zion, Illinois
by John Rybicki
Ah Dame, I don’t know how else
to love you
so I just start juggling. I’m on
the street
I Sit with Bald Women in Borrowed Hair
by Teresa Cooper
I sit with bald women in
borrowed hair
Each week we ask, “How are you?”
And each answers, “Fine”
Do You Know My Sister?
by Terry McAlpine
She’s rather small in stature, but she seems so big in my eyes.
She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. It was real, real bad.
Meditation
by Don Winslow
No goals, no expectations.
Whatever is, is.
For now – just Be.
Cancer Does Not Have Me
by Christine Dittmann
I have cancer
But cancer does not have me.
Ode to Prednisone
by Marsha Sray
Oh, you five orange chalky tablets separated in my
pill-by-day box,
you taste so bitter going down and like to get stuck where
my tonsils used to be.
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, spread thin on both sides,
makes you much more cooperative ... and tasty.
