Jim Brewer Poet Narrative

The Poetry of Cancer

THE POETRY OF CANCER
                                                (For Shelly)

My editor says
keep it simple,

so here it is:
you died on Saturday

and your viewing
was Monday.

You were a good poet
but cancer

ate through you
so fast you didn’t have

time

to write a good-bye
poem.

Now here it is Tuesday
and I am 

waiting 

for an email
that will never 

come.

Copyrighted 
November 12, 2011
Jim Brewer

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Ilene Bauer December 10, 2011 at 2:09 PM very touching and beautifully expressed!