Session 2: ReDo—Completement
Gregory Bell
Enormous levels of kinetic energy can be transferred through microscopic to cosmic distances by photons that travel at the speed of light, carrying a relativistic mass/energy. This energy, when photons collide with atoms and molecules of living systems can cause serious damage or death.
Hawai’i Medical Journal 2010 April
It’s Chris from Mississippi who’ll lead me through the labyrinth for my reprieve to plot through bowel & bladder harmony the path to my repair: drop pants and underwear, up on the carbon monolith go I to enter the remake:
2021: Inner Space Odyssey
A scintillation of red lasers point
to tattooed marks on hips and belly, dancing
dervish rubies on my pubes
Apparatus swinging forward, X-ray
monitors dance, too, with a sterile sci-fi precision
to *click* & *clack* and plot the map . . .
I ask myself what kind of body
harbours cancer refuses to let it go?
Mechanical arms answer
snaking out from mother beast
point and aim click inscrutable screens
target this this body
this amalgam of molecules
animated with the pulse of light and blood
and thought persistent urge
for treatment every weekday
thirty days test of endurance
meant to bring me
back to balance
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These days, the fingers of a diagnosis blanch with welter, blue with weather I don’t say, not aloud, not within spitting distance of anyone.
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