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Tag Archives: Prognosis

Personifying it

Jul15

by Chris Buchanan

Poetry, 2022

They said six to eight weeks

and I thought you’d be pissing yourself with that, loving it, pissing deep down his lungs and into his flat red chest

but obviously not. You did it in four

you were just rinsing harder,

as if you needed a masterpiece

It’s inhuman what you did to him.

Leave a comment Posted in Uncategorized Tagged bereavement, Cancer, Illness, loss, poem, poetry, Prognosis

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