Hard to say if this is humorous or morose. And in that, both humor and grief are two areas very difficult to critique for me. A joke is a joke, you either get it or you don't. And grief is what it is and no one should take that away from the poet, the subject contained in the poem or the world.
I'm not fond however of the "legless" bit. I think it is very coarse and very unappealing in the context of digressing on cancer. I suppose my nursework leaves me with a particular bias that is impossible to share here.
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