A HAND FULL OF HAIR
April
| Three weeks of chemotherapy. | |
| What a drag. | |
| I need to get out- | |
| to do something fun. | |
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| "Let's go to the ice-show tonight," | |
| volunteers my husband. | |
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| Ideal. | |
| A deal. | |
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| A shower and quick shampoo, | |
| -a hand full of hair! | |
| -a wad of hair! | |
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| Stunning disbelief- | |
| and simultaneous knowledge | |
| that I am not to be spared | |
| this side-effect. | |
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| Ice show, yes. Fun, no. | |
| For in the darkness | |
| the audience cannot see | |
| the flow of tears | |
| cascading. | |
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From Journey Unknown (Journey Press, 1994) |
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