going down

a free verse poem

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Reader Caution: Contains themes of cancer and death

a homie’s last words to me were
“Bring the hot chocolate if you can”

then days later he was gone
with a single push of morphine

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his neck swole the year before
so they stripped out his nodes

they also fried him from the tits up
lobstered from the photons

he drank Ensure and ate plain oatmeal
and he dug dry turds out by hand

months later the mass came back
so they chemoed him with the motherlode

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he lasted just long enough to find God
and ask me to sneak him hot chocolate

found out later from the prison doctor
a vagina from the 80s was the killer

Thanks for reading.