Category Archives: Prostate Cancer

How to Help a Cancer Victim

How to Help a Cancer Victim First understand: we’re confused, we’re angry, we’re stunned, we’re overwhelmed, we don’t know what we need. Know you can’t fix it. Know we’ve heard a lot to be frightened of. Know we’re fragile. We … Continue reading

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Fighting for Your Life is Boring: A poem

Here is a poem I am working on for my cancer poetry book. Would you make any edits to this? Fighting for your life is boring Unending sameness. 6:45 a.m., parking lot with the same four cars. Truck, SUV, VW … Continue reading

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What I’ve Been Up To

Today I had to give up my delusion of wearing a tee-shirt and shorts all day.  Yesterday it was a nice sunny day and the weather report said today was going to be in the mid 80’s again, so I … Continue reading

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Glad that’s Behind Me

It’s been a weird week for me.  Not sure I want to explain it all.  Right now I am just glad it’s over and I get to move on.  I didn’t write a poem this week and likely won’t for … Continue reading

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