Eratosphere Forums - Metrical Poetry, Free Verse, Fiction, Art, Critique, Discussions Able Muse - a review of poetry, prose and art

Forum Left Top

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Unread 03-03-2024, 05:17 AM
Chris O'Carroll Chris O'Carroll is online now
Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 1,878
Default LUPO & Snakeskin

"Technically, you don't have liver cancer," the doctor told me. "What you have is colon cancer in your liver." Well, I knew I wasn't hearing good news. But I also knew I was hearing a great laugh line. Colon cancer in my liver? C'mon, that's pretty funny.

After a two-month course of chemotherapy, I had my liver surgery earlier this week. And the new issues of Lighten up Online and Snakeskin each carry one of my cancer poems.

https://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/

https://www.lightenup-online.co.uk/i...-65-march-2024

I'm grateful to all of you who have rallied around with messages of encouragement and concern, and I hope everybody enjoys laughing at mortality.
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Unread 03-04-2024, 12:35 PM
Susan McLean Susan McLean is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Iowa City, IA, USA
Posts: 10,459
Default

Great poems, Chris! I laughed out loud at "Prague Proverb." How true!

Susan
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Unread 03-05-2024, 03:50 PM
Chris O'Carroll Chris O'Carroll is online now
Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 1,878
Default

Thank you, Susan. Apparently, that joke is familiar to the point of cliché among experienced mushroom enthusiasts. But it was new to me, and I also laughed out loud when I heard it from our Czech guide. Glad to have passed the merriment along.
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Unread 03-05-2024, 08:28 PM
Terese Coe Terese Coe is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: New York, NY
Posts: 7,489
Default

Chris,

You're a brave man, and macabre humor is the best of humor, the worst of humor. Hang in there, and may the writing bring you laughs, as it does your readers!
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Unread 03-06-2024, 02:32 AM
Brian Allgar Brian Allgar is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Paris, France
Posts: 5,511
Default

I told Francoise the mushroom joke this morning, and it made her laugh - which, since she hadn't yet had her breakfast, takes some doing!
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Unread 03-06-2024, 07:50 AM
Chris O'Carroll Chris O'Carroll is online now
Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 1,878
Default

Thank you, Brian. It's good to hear that the 'shroom joke is provoking more laughs.

Thank you, Terese. I'll own that best of humor/worst of humor business, but I really haven't had to be all that brave compared to many other poets who've chronicled their cancer experiences. At the moment, I'm reading Katie Farris's Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, a "memoir in poems" about the author's breast cancer. She's just one of many whose run-in with the disease has been far more grievous that mine.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump



Forum Right Top
Forum Left Bottom Forum Right Bottom
 
Right Left
Member Login
Forgot password?
Forum LeftForum Right


Forum Statistics:
Forum Members: 8,535
Total Threads: 22,220
Total Posts: 273,066
There are 67087 users
currently browsing forums.
Forum LeftForum Right


Forum Sponsor:
Donate & Support Able Muse / Eratosphere
Forum LeftForum Right
Right Right
Right Bottom Left Right Bottom Right

Hosted by ApplauZ Online