Famous Tumor Poems by Famous Poets

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A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme

...l may syllabes jar with time,
Still may reason war with rhyme,
Resting never.
May his sense when it would meet
The cold tumor in his feet,
Grow unsounder;
And his title be long fool,
That in rearing such a school
Was the founder....Read more of this...
by Jonson, Ben


Dire Cure

..."First, do no harm," the Hippocratic
Oath begins, but before she might enjoy
such balm, the docs had to harm her tumor.
It was large, rare, and so anomalous
in its behavior that at first they mis-
diagnosed it. "Your wife will die of it
within a year." But in ten days or so
I sat beside her bed with hot-and-sour
soup and heard an intern congratulate
her on her new diagnosis: a children's
cancer (doesn't that possessive break
your heart?) had possessed her. I couldn't s...Read more of this...
by Matthews, William

Dream Song 135: I heard said Cats that walk by their wild lone

...e & mother
before (mercy-killings) he set out.

Not every shot went in. But most went in:
in just over an hour
with the tumor thudding in his brain
he killed 13, hit 33:
his empty father said he taught him to respect guns
(not persons)....Read more of this...
by Berryman, John

Giant Fungus

...me of dirt.
Under that, the World's
Largest Living Thing spreads
like a hemorrhage poised

to paralyze the earth—like a tumor
ready to cause 9.0 convulsions,
or a brain dreaming this world
of crickets and dung beetles,

sculpins, Beethoven, coots,
Caligula, St. Augustine grass, Mister
Lincoln roses, passion fruit, wildebeests,
orioles like sunspots shooting high,

then dropping back to the green
arms of trees, their roots
sunk deep in the power
of things sleeping and unknown....Read more of this...
by Webb, Charles

Hypochondriac

...Maybe it’s Emphysema, a shiny black jewel of phlegm 
humming like a clump of bees in my chest. 
Perhaps a tumor crawling in the crook of my armpit, 
a blood clot opening like a tiny red flower in my brain.

Maybe it’s too early to show up on an X-ray, 
a kind of cancerous seed planted deep 
in my intestine, something like Leukemia’s ghost 
haunting my hollow bones.

The doctor says I’m fine. 

But even now, deep in the dark holes of my eyes
I can feel the catara...Read more of this...
by Tusa, Chris


Purgatorio (Italian)

...va, e quei la discolora
per cui ella esce de la terra acerba».
 E io a lui: «Tuo vero dir m'incora
bona umiltà, e gran tumor m'appiani;
ma chi è quei di cui tu parlavi ora?».
 «Quelli è», rispuose, «Provenzan Salvani;
ed è qui perché fu presuntuoso
a recar Siena tutta a le sue mani.
 Ito è così e va, sanza riposo,
poi che morì; cotal moneta rende
a sodisfar chi è di là troppo oso».
 E io: «Se quello spirito ch'attende,
pria che si penta, l'orlo de la vita,
qua giù dimora e q...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Victory

...g
organisms traced and stained on cathedral transparencies
cruel blues embroidered purples succinct yellows
a beautiful tumor

•

I guess you're not alone I fear you're alone
There's, of course, poetry:
awful bridge rising over naked air: I first
took it as just a continuation of the road: 
"a masterpiece of engineering
praised, etc." then on the radio: 
"incline too steep for ease of, etc."
Drove it nonetheless because I had to
this being how— So this is how
I find you: aliv...Read more of this...
by Rich, Adrienne

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