A Patient's Cancer Positionality

Positionality

A bald woman in a face mask

Being wheeled through the hospital corridor

The doctor thinks metastasis, final stage

A nurse tries to protect and cover

Her exposure

A stranger buying get-well cards

Sees the irony in this healing place.

A bald woman in a face mask

Passes the hospital gift shop

In a wheelchair that her granddaughter

Is strongly pushing:

Neither of them is thinking

Of Death today.

This post was written and submitted by Roger S. Platizky. The article reflects the views of Platizky and not of CURE®. This is also not supposed to be intended as medical advice.

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