cancerphobia

fear makes it all so real,
the people round us dropping like
flies, with no age spared & no
combination of genes, environment
or upbringing, determined to be
perfect, so as to locate its reason or
motive---for it creeps in, seemingly
indiscriminately & yet,
every fake sugar packet gets questioned,
every deodorant used, every potato chip,
every abundant intake of vitamin E, every
sausage, every burger, every bowl of soup,
every bit of hair dye, every swish of
mouthwash, every moisturizer smeared,
every smidgeon of talcum, every x-ray,
every call made on the cell, every cold,
every glass of wine, every minute spent on
facefuck, every tooth whitening paste,
every cup of coffee, every microwaved
meal, every single doughnut ever consumed,
every french fry, every slice of bacon, every
moment spent in the sun too long,
EVERYTHING YOU THOUGHT WAS
ONCE GOOD FOR YOU HAS NOW SENT
YOU REELING &
time is of the essence,
when every little irk in one’s body leads them
to believe they are dying & every new report
unleashed by the doctors, leads one to believe
their days are numbered,
seems ever since the bombs got dropped on
Japan, vaporizing hundreds of thousands of
people, leaving those left alive to the ravages of
mutation & radiation in the fall out,
the citizens of the empire that dropped the bombs
have been trembling with
cancerphobia.