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broccoli, cancer, & inadequate words




cancer talk
fills the other room
they won’t say it out loud
but we’re thinking the same thing--
i am the cancer
itself--

cells multiplying exponentially
feeding on health
and well being
overpowering
all that is good
to secure
my own
existence

the trees look like broccoli
shooting up from the earth
so i pluck them out of my brain,
the hole oozing fertilizer--
shit and minerals

isn’t that all we are?
feces and raw matter;
human emotion
mixed with the aches that
words were never created for;
pain and terror
with expressions that fall flat--

this alphabet, these consonant
and vowel combinations…
they’re inadequate at best


and the irony of it all
is that i can’t even make you
feel what I feel
with my attempts

but i try anyway
and wonder if you
understand.





Author notes

i dunno where this came from. title didn't come to me so it got that instead.

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  • Sir Ima Cucumber
    October 4

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    I know where it came from, or where mine comes from when I write with this same intent. We want people to feel, to see what we feel and see and our words do not express to them what we want them to find. And so we write and write and it never reaches the level of vitality that we want it to. Then people read, give us wanton platitudes, they don't care about what we've written, and they don't understand and so we wonder why we even bother.

    Or maybe it is just me, lol

  • unraveled
    October 3

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    "human emotion
    mixed with the aches that
    words were never created for"

    Looove those lines. i really enjoyed this piece, so many different aspects brought into unity among your stanzas. great job

    -cassidy


  • Miss Faith
    October 3

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    your still amazing.

    "and the irony of it all
    is that i can’t even make you
    feel what I feel
    with my attempts

    but i try anyway
    and wonder if you
    understand."


  • solarjinx
    October 3

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    honestly, i was worried before... but now my fears can be buried beneath the brilliance of thsi poem. your current change of life has not interrupted your flow one bit, you still managed to mesmorize me in every way.

    and that's a great thing I thought i'd no longer be able to feel. this was killer, you know? and trust me, I understand.

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