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Curt Eriksen

Cancer

Cancer is not an ugly word

though it calls to mind

a crab with forty thousand heads

and infinite claws and dirty pincers

clipping furiously at the single frayed thread

that suspends each of us above the well

where we have buried and hidden

our hopes of a painless exit

from a long and greedy life ended

with the dignity that everyone deserves.

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