Multiple myeloma is the second most common hematological malignancy and is invariably fatal.
Dr. A. Rodriguez
Thalamid and Multiple Myeloma, 1999
dr. rodriguez gets straight to the point
like grapeshot into the chest
at close range, or the blunt
pen of the coroner.
how to turn fear into
light?
at best, a cure will buy me two or
three decades of suntime.
but i so love the taste of air, &
the touch of brightness & the
nearness of my dear dear woman
that i want to stay.
invariable fatality is a gift of
life & maybe
our reward for living.
all that we have, we
we do not own, all we
can grasp is emphatically on
loan.
it's time to surrender the
control we never really
had.
to be
free as the
wind
confident as
earth
bold as
fire.
it's time to fall in
love & death––
to dive in the water & be
lost in the flow;
& where it's flowing
nobody
knows.