poem “Story Telling part one”, a poem adapted from Janet Kuypers’ 2006 poem “Story Telling” about her mother, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Story Telling (part one) (a portion of her 2006 poem Story Telling, w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of Story Telling (part one) (a portion of her 2006 poem Story Telling, w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

Enjoy this YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at “Sisters on a Journey” in Chicago’s Hyde Park of 14 poems about her mother, including this poem (filmed from a Canon fs200 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Enjoy this YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at “Sisters on a Journey” in Chicago’s Hyde Park of 14 poems about her mother, including this poem (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow

Download this poems in the free chapbook
“Journey”, w/ poems read 3/28/15
at Sisters on a Journey show in Hyde Park (Chicago)

Story Telling part one
Janet Kuypers
3/26/15
adapted from 2006’s “Story Telling”
My mom had breast cancer
and the three girls
flew to visit her
and mom felt bad
that she couldn’t make our trip better
because she just found out
she had cervical cancer too
but we couldn’t have come
at a better time
so she had procedures
she had surgeries
and the cancer was gone
she was in the clear
so for a decade
she went to the doctor
and they found no cancer in her
and all seemed well
she had beaten
a killer
###
a decade after her bouts with cancer
she went back to the doctor,
had a fever, felt tired
and they said it’s funny,
you’ve got all the symptoms
and most women who have had
as much cancer in their history as you’ve had
well, it seems you now have
leukemia
###
now, this leukemia is a tricky thing
cancer of the blood
versus cancer of an organ
it was easier when you could
just remove an organ
and leave it at that
but this was cancer in her blood
and the cancer crept into her bone marrow
and they had to periodically
drill into her hip bone
for a bone marrow biopsy
to see if there was any cancer
in her bone marrow
must be a fun job,
to drill into an angel’s hip bone

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