myeloma: a confrontation with
self.
the body: a wise horse
clambering up a
mountainside.
ego: a general misdirecting an
army.
anxiety: the visceral volcanics of
imagined pain.
patient: who you are & how to
be in horizontal reality.
chemotherapy: the royal road to
well-being guarded by sinkholes of medically necessary misery.
margin of survival: a favorable
ratio of functional living
cells to dead cancer cells.
calendar: the fading illusion of personal intent.
suffering: the stricken heart ascends.
resolution: let go of all you
can, except life.
retrospect: high altitude; low
turbulence.