“Chemo” copyright 2008 John J. Rigo upcoming Poetry Book, “Passion Amidst Apathy”

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I could see the sadness in her eyes

as each chunk of her golden hair came forth in her hand.

She placed her once shining, golden flax into a plastic bag

to be reminded of the beauty of her hair.

 

Her hair stylist assured her that baking soda

washed gently in her hair would prevent

the falling of her hair from her scalp.

 

In giving her this suggestion

the stylist refused to cut her hair shorter

in order to make her lost easier to bear.

The stylist was wrong.

 

Bear witness to the shining and blotched scalp

where beautiful golden hair once resided.

Nightmares of her past returned to her.

 

Remembrance of a childhood ring worm of her head

returned to haunt her again

of laughing classmates

finger-pointing to stocking capped head.

 

The Spector of Death upon a black chair

drove her to the decision

to move forward to this dreaded treatment.

 

Was the fear real

or made to fill the pockets of her doctors?

Payments for the Rolls convertible that sat

shiny and pale green in the doctor’s slot

of the cancer treatment center.

 

A large cow-like-barn room

where milking looking machines of death

pumped their questionable medicine into their hosts.

 

A winged angel of slow death

masked as an Angel of Life

to claim another possible victim

in its green flow of money from perhaps

its victims?

 

Dear God,

please protect

the one I love so dearly

from this possible

self-inflicted treatment.

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