Wednesday, March 17, 2021

cancer killed my mother



Cancer killed my mother this year -
the year I have at last arrived at after so long a latency.
I have wondered about this year -

fifty.

It's a weighty word in your mouth -
it has to be spit out
like a lemon seed.

It lays on the ground afterward,
hard and sterile.
I've resented this year
since her skin took on the yellow of a bad sepia filter
on some influencer's feed.

Cancer is not coming for me this year -
perhaps a heart attack
or a car accident is in store.
But it won't be cancer. 

 

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