december poetry | we're dying

And the funerals begin…

Small communities, cities, towns,

Cancer deaths,

Worldwide…

And tying them all to one

Slow deliberate

Extinction

My brother told me about the mold,

Danny and his wife were renters…

They said it was in their walls, both got the same cancer,

Brain cancer she had first… doctors used radiation and chemo so

Now her brain is mush, really fried,

She is like an old woman, my brother said.

And then he had surgery, some lung cancer,

They got it all and he told me his lung was growing back,

but the cancer spread to his brain next…

Worldwide

Worldwide

We're dying

this is Danny Bland who I lost

we must find a cure... xoxoxox Lara Trace

Coley's Toxins: Curing Cancer

Here is your thought bomb for the day:

A patient named Zola had a huge tumor on his neck. Coley treated Zola with bacteria that caused him to become violently ill. Within hours the tumor began to dissolve. He recovered completely.

Isabel Seliger for NPR

Training The Immune System To Fight Cancer Has 19th-Century Roots: Coley speculated that the strep infection had reversed the cancer.

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