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Cancer [170]

Cancer

I'm not a fan of cancer,
those cells that riot at the body's expense.
I avoid the party crowd.
I'm no anarchist.

But one doesn't always choose one's enemies,
and some appear first as friends.
How they suck the life out of you!
They only feed themselves.

Better to be an elephant,
part of a family that wanders together:
nomads of the deserts,
rumbles of the jungle.

Everywhere is home.

And there's no fear of cancer.
Elephants don't get cancer.
Not like my brother-in-law.

© Kåre Enga (7.juli.2017) after speaking with my mother [174.170]

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