"The
Cancerboy Diaries: Entry the 10th"
Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri
07/15/08 9:53 a.m. pdt
I cannot
write the tenth entry as the last
I had just
completed
reading
the first nine entries
en toto
from first word to last
remembering how long it has been
and of course how short it has been
since this mess first began
then the phone rang
at around 9:30pm
the phone call of doom
the call nobody wants to take
I am listed
as emergency contact
so I hear the news first
I immediately called brother Dale
and am now waiting for him to call me back
I've got a drink by my side
Here's to you
my iconoclastic friend Joel
I've broken the news to the cats
you always talked more to the cats
than to me
Here's to the good times
(How I know you'd hate seeing that cliche)
Here's to X playing loud.
I'm just a mite too sad to write the last line
yet
Poetry
2008
