Chemo Instruction Manual

Control side effects

              smoothly

                        (That’s a lie!)

Destroy what

divides rapidly

blood

mucous

mouth

throat

stomach

roots of hair

“Who shall say I am not
the happy genius of my household?”

dancing  

head in toilet.

                                 WARNING:  You are overdrawn

                                                Whose fucking fault is that?

                                                            Your account is, your account, you’re --

                                                                        Speak plainly or key in

                                                                                          Blab 

Someone makes tea.

The sun goes down.

Don’t cook

the odor 

My swaddled head is warm

            Your fingers

                        oddly, and

for the time being

 I don’t mind