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Cancer. |
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Down, at last, to the nausea zone,
Vomiting and blindness, The last Tyrannosaurus dreams in the kingdom of headaches, The last discardings. Assured that I will not lose, At any stage in this descent, Myself. That I will still be me myself Right until the very end, The finish. |
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With my shrunken brain
Residual with the aftermath of radiation, I find the present waking to the past. There are bells and there are birds As there were in those cities of Europe In the days when I thought I made long journeys. Far shorter, them, Than the journey I have dedicated now. |
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In the absolute calm of the nuclear medicine department
I feel completely at ease. But, on exiting, I find my geographies dislocated. The corridors Stumble into mazes. My fractured map Is gaptoothed with abysms. I blunder as best I can, This way, that way, Must be a way out of here somewhere — Trucking through the basement levels, Looking for my life. |
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Cancer poems by a cancer patient and neurosurgery survivor who has been through chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Remission has been achived but survivorhood issues remain.
The full story of the author's encounter with brain cancer, from initial problems through to the achievement of remission, can be read in his medical memoir, the full text of which is online to read free. To access the text of the medical memoir just click on the following link: These poems about cancer and its consequneces form part of the Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection which is by Hugh Cook, author of the fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness, and is divided into the following sections: short poems (some very short), school poems, city poems, nature poems, war poems, cancer poems, death poems and assorted modern poems, including poetry about Africa, Guantanamo, the Golden Age and the American dream. The 141 poems in this collection are photocopiable for classroom use. Additionally, various other permissions have been granted, for which see the terms of use. |
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• DIAGNOSIS: cancer: diagnosing cancer. • MAINLINING: gallium count. • EYE SURGERY: eye surgery, surgical operation. • CANCER: cancer, facing death. • RED HOT TEARS: grief. • CHEMOTHERAPY: chemotherapy. • HOLISTIC MEDICINE: holistic medicine: a cynic's view. • METHOTREXATE: chemotherapy with methotrexate. • FIFTH CYCLE: chemotherapy routine. • RADIOTHERAPY ANTICIPATED: radiation therapy imagined. • RADIOTHERAPY INFLICTED: radiation therapy: the actual experience of being irradiated. • CORNFLAKES: life or death, cancer's consequences. • DYING WE CAN DO TOMORROW daughter (not yet two years old), Christmas. • THE ACTIVE CHILD: daughter (very young and very active), parental responsbility. • AFTER I WAS DIAGNOSED: surreal poem. • THIS WAR IN IRAQ: selfishness, indifference to the wider world. • THE CHEATED DAUGHTER: guilt, nurses. • RECIDIVISM: cancer returns. • WALKING AROUND MY CITY. Facing cancer. • SADDAM IS GUILTY: Saddam Hussein: praise poem. • NINE-MONTH PARACHUTE DROP: death: the mechanism of my death. • ICE CREAM BRAIN: brain damage, chemotherapy side-effects, radiotherapy side effects. • MY CONCEPTUAL SIEVE: brain damage, chemotherapy side-effects, radiotherapy side effects. • BLIND MEN CAN STILL EAT MARZIPAN: looking on the bright side. • ON HIS BLINDNESS: blindness, going blind. • PROGERIA: autism, counting our blessings. • CANCER PATIENT: cancer: achieving remission. • TWELVE HOURS DISTANT: survivorhood. • ARC OF LIGHT: mortality. A poem about living a mortal life in a mortal world. • SURVIVORHOOD: life after cancer, survivorhood. • ADVICE FOR CANCER PATIENTS: advice on diet hygiene safety etc. |
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full text online Cancer Patient Facing cancer and battling death |
Survivorhood Blog Cancer appears to have returned, and blindness seems to threaten |
Full text of Cancer Patientis free to read online. An autobiographical account of cns lymphoma.
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CNS lymphoma is a cancer of the lymph which affects the central nervous system, the brain and the spinal cord. |
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