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Cancer Marched On

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Her breath doesn't
just rise and fall
To the beat box in her chest.

As she forms a tiny
rabbit hole between her
35 year old lips,
You can't hear the air
rush in or out,
Much like her life
At this point.

Her fingers aren't skeleton keys.
She will walk when she feels like it.
She's stronger than our love now.


We throw these phrases at the wall,
praying they'll stay around.
The white coats
Are traitors, lying
About chemicals and functions.
They couldn't be more wrong,
Right?

She picks up her eyelids
With one of her hands
because they're too heavy otherwise.

She says she sees
So much brown in our eyes
So many colors mixed well
From fractions of time
With her. She laughs
And lets go of her sight again.
It's good because
Blue starts to spill over.
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