the deadpeople grow more beautiful with each passing day
today a gorgeous woman Cornelia Dragland 63
pg 20 obituaries +William Paddon McKenzie 23
no euphemisms for drugs or suicide and since i
am a mere brotherdeath away from the asylum i
will tell u frankly
squander not the icestorms of february do glide
over iceysurfaces with your hardwon courage forged
at deathbeds +birthbeds in bedrooms where 60
stitches to the chest are nurtured (bros stop rolling
your eyes) i rise i rise
and in the interstices between now +spring a wondrous
thing called numbing is coming to the greymatter of your
aging brain
run with it
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Winter 2019 ..in honour of World Cancer Day..
LIFE
IS BIGGER THAN CANCER
Than the diagnosis
The chemo
The surgeries
The scars
(The Canadian Cancer Society February 4, 2019,
1 in 2 Canadians are affected by cancer..)
songanddancegirl 