Pantoum: Numb Disbelief

I was captured by her cleavage
Lost in envy of underwire and lace
How could this
Be true?
Supposed to slowly
Get old, grey, infirm, die.

Envy of underwire and lace
Patient outcomes, cancer causes, chemotherapy cocktails
Get old, grey, infirm, die.
I sat and wept

Outcomes cause cocktails
Ductal and lobular carcinoma
Sit, weep
Miles to go to run the rage into the road

Ductal AND lobular carcinoma
It’s not the flu, you don’t get over it
Run the rage into the road
Blessed in life and love, but it’s not the same

Don’t get over it
This is so true
Not the same
Captured by cleavage