Ten Good Things About Having Terminal Cancer
By Michael Biegner
1) No one asks you to help them move.
2) It’s far easier to lose weight.
3) You get whisked to the head of every line:
simply remove your hat, show off your bald head . . .
4) No need to bother with the new desk calendar.
5) Sleeping in. Every day.
6) You can eat anything you can keep down.
7) Done with Christmas cards – forever!
8) Cream AND milk in my coffee every day.
9) Everyone tells you that you look great, though your
skin resembles the color of Elmer’s Glue.
10) No need to stain the deck next summer.
2) It’s far easier to lose weight.
3) You get whisked to the head of every line:
simply remove your hat, show off your bald head . . .
4) No need to bother with the new desk calendar.
5) Sleeping in. Every day.
6) You can eat anything you can keep down.
7) Done with Christmas cards – forever!
8) Cream AND milk in my coffee every day.
9) Everyone tells you that you look great, though your
skin resembles the color of Elmer’s Glue.
10) No need to stain the deck next summer.
Michael Biegner has been published in Blooms, Poetry Storehouse, Silver Birch Press, Silkworm, WordPeace, Pondersavant, Necro Productions, and Poets To Come, an anthology in honor of Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday. His prose poem (“When Walt Whitman Was A Little Girl”) was made into a video short by North Carolina filmmaker Jim Haverkamp, where it has competed at various film festivals around the world and is available for viewing on Vimeo. Michael was a finalist in the 2017 Northampton Arts Council Biennial Call To Artists. He was diagnosed with castrate resistant metastatic prostate cancer in October of 2019 and is currently undergoing chemotherapy.