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Cancer Prayer by AM Juster

7/25/2008 4:58:38 PM
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Cancer Prayer
 
  Dear Lord,
Please flood her nerves with sedatives
and keep her strong enough to crack a smile
so disbelieving friends and relatives
can temporarily sustain denial.

Please smite that intern in oncology
who craves approval from department heads

Please ease her urge to vomit; let there be
kind but flirtatious men in nearby beds.

Given her hair, consider amnesty
for sins of vanity; make mirrors vanish.

Surround her with forgiving family
and nurses not too numb to cry. Please banish
trite consolations; take her in one swift
and gentle motion as your final gift.

AM Juster


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Margaret Menamin (3/10/2007 11:08:00 PM)
This is a beautiful, practical, compassionate statement. My compliments to the author.
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