Copyright © 1994 to Jane Wisniewski
1.
- Puke green, Compazine.
- Little white ladies, Nolvadex
- Speckled Cytoxan
- Take these and these
- and maybe these
- if you need them.
- Your Hair might fall out.
- You may gain twenty pounds.
- We cannot say.
- We cannot say if they'll work.
- You'll be okay
- unless you start dying.
- Puke green Compazine.
- Little white ladies, Nolvadex
- Speckled Cytoxan.
2.
- How are you?
- "I'm all right," I say.
- We both agree
- I will not say
- how I really am today.
3.
- Chemotherapy will fix you up,
- if it doesn't kill you,
- but no matter what your lot,
- you can be sure they'll bill you.
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