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More than another straw
added one by one
to the camel’s back
The word, the diagnosis,
Cancer, more, much more
Another brick, added to the hod
load she must carry
Every day, one on one
so young, so much hurt
pain so deep, raw still
another brick; but
she carries it too

September 5, 2008
written at the Agape Café coffeehouse
Wesley United Methodist Church
(one of 24 written there that night)

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