Long Pancreas Poems

Dear Seven Emotions
 Help me to speak your truth to bring the good news glad tiding just what a Master of all masters said to do speak to the flesh in understanding my desires my...

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Argh daylight savings time ends – 2:00 AM November 6th 2022

Hour hands of o'clock get set back 
sixty minutes gaining extra hour of Autumn
round about this same day of November 
every year, what a bum
er,...

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My first enemy was one I should have loved
He claimed that he loved me but I suppose not enough
He carved the gaps in all my memories
And deprived me of what made me
A child at twelve...

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A February Saturday,
Dull and cold and wet,
A visit from my daughter,
That I never will forget.
“Hello dad, you’re looking tanned”,
“Oh wait, no, you are yellow”
“Get on to 111 she said”,
Before even saying “hello”.
Put on hold for...

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I put my lips to his cheek 
Reminded me of winter time, not ice cold
Without warmth yes, but with texture
hard to the touch like a rubber glove on a rock

Thoughts will never leave me
Sad thing...

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Good morning Poison Squirrels,
Today I am going to address your bowel problems

My class groans.
We don’t like to think about them.
We are teens.

Your mouth chews up food, right? Asks Mr. Lee.
Our science teacher is way too...

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A strong and new friendship was born at the cancer clinic
Both cry, they had lost the driving force to look forward
The pleasure of a long life and everything they had planned for the future
Hopes and...

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Desperation, desolation, all hope dies and withers in fate's blackened embers.
Destiny's fire once glowed red with heat but now lies in the dust and dissipates in the breeze.

Fallen, discarded fast losing faith in the dark...

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He’s 85 and he says he isn’t going to die.
Stooped over very badly, maybe two feet shorter now
than he used to be in his prime
and walking very slowly with his cane,
he insists on opening his...

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S he saved us all from a life of mediocrity. 
silly smart beautiful barefoot dancer in the flower bed
Nurturing to everyone 
leaving the least for herself
She was my best friend, but we were hell at...

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I look into the mirror
And who is that I see?
Someone I don't recognise
Is looking back at me

The lines upon the forehead
That are called ‘worry lines'
Are caused by getting stressed
Far too many times

A line next to...

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Healthy people you better think twice. While you are feeling so good go out and enjoy your life.                 ...

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I ogled through the open Atelier,
  And chance into a spacious grotto,
  Wanting to carry out an exploration of voodoo kingdom,
  I made a pact with my kinetic limbs,
  On they...

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An appliance has a warranty,
Right there in black and white.
You can get your money back
If it won’t work just right.

And purchasing a car provides
Assurance in two styles – 
It’s guaranteed for either months
Or, which comes...

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My doctor is a surgeon, a man of know-how and expedience.
I set before you now his methods from personal experience:

When, to my despair, I developed ED, he transplanted me another
and quipped: It may not always...

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It starts with one thing
and one thing always leads to another
I think he is indestructible 
Three forms of cancer can't stop my grandfather
Prostate Lung Pancreas cancers
Yet he fights them head on like a hammer
They say...

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1

On St Patrick’s day my score was nine point two.

Maybe I am about to get the regular flu.

In spite of all the tablets I take.

The magic number Six I cannot make.

2

Every night the Insulin counts...

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just Like That Problematic Systematic Lazy Earth Men ---

grease in the skillet
pancreas full of it?
yeah
just like that
pure as the white driven snow
when you got nowhere to go
yeah, yeah
just like that, just like that
ants on the...

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He had started responding 
To death tapping at his door
Fog crowded on his glasses

He was a medical student
Carcinogens had loved his pancreas
Would you mind coming with me
The growing fog said

Could the young stallion
Hear the mortal...

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I met a little Sophia recently in a Masjid.
By the by I met the grandmother, traveling from "Normal."
I had to travel on a cold day for a hot topic, she was hinting...
And I learned the...

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Ah, I'm afraid I don't get the joke now,
  externally a clown, screaming banshee trapped within,
walls tearing down, nerves stripped and laid bare,
  head filled to bursting, kissed by apocalypse and sin.
Well, if...

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My canvas is swirling with sassiness
Purples, greens, fuchsia and limes greet each other
Mixing it up in a frenzy of sorts.
They snake in and out of themselves
This is something I have whipped up for fun.

Like my...

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A funny thing happened on my way to my house

I shouldn’t have taken the bus on that day
A digestive issue was starting to rise
My house I feared was a long trip away
I hurt deep inside...

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The Perils Of  POO POO

I shouldn’t have taken the bus on that day
A digestive issue was starting to rise
The destination I feared was a long trip away
I hurt deep inside it was not a...

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Daily we check our blood,
Interested in our score,
Another day of lancing,
Better not ignore,
Eating used to be such a pleasure,
Tomorrow could be taking insulin shots,
Earnestly trying to eat good,
So I can help my irregular pancreas.

This disease...

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