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No she was looking for people to be like "Oh you're so strong" or "Cancer is SOOO terrible" or "Wow look at how much I can suck your proverbial d**k because you had a disease that literally ever human being on the face of the earth develops at one point or another"

The sentence should have ended with "Back in '98" There was really no need to spout off anything else. If she really NEEDED to say ANYTHING she could have said "when I was ill".

Or she just is proud of the fact that she's a cancer survivor. Nothing wrong with that. She beat the odds, I see no reason for anyone to be in her face about it. I have know a lot of people who died of cancer personally. It sucks and is really hard to survive. I've been told that the treatments feel worse than the disease. I'm not going to give her flak for mentioning that she started writing her poetry when she was diagnosed with cancer. It is valid, and it doesn't mean she is fishing for special treatment. She's just self validating.

It's a good thing.

Well, I write a lot of poetry, but mostly only my friend Steph sees it. She's a graphic artist, a type-setter, and generally plays with words and has this way of making my best poems into SHEER AWESOMENESS visually. And we are going to do a book. So only she sees those ones. MAYBE I'll get brave and post something, though. However, apparently nothing that would be too "emo"... or that make reference to a disease since those don't seem to be appreciated here rolleyes hee hee hee!

I work in a medical facility. I know the odds vary for different types of cancer. Pretty sure she wasn't writing poetry over a small bout of skin cancer. I have seen how devastating a diagnosis of cancer can be to a patient.

As for self love, I'll validate it for the healthy people too. It doesn't matter if you are diseased or not, if you want to validate yourself for surviving in this life, go for it! It sure beats being miserable about life, unless your emo. Emo kids like being miserable, it's who they are.



Yeah, it sucks losing loved ones. Skin cancer (not a big deal), and ovarian cancer (worse) are the most common in my family tree. There are others too, but not as prominent. It is awful to watch a loved one die from any disease.



I also know there are other options, but is is usually chemo. Chemo sucks to endure. Most of the cancer drugs do too. Also, chemo can kill a cancer victim fast than leaving the cancer untreated.



She could have said ALS or chronic pulmonary disease or CRF and I'd still support her right to self validate. I think you are the only one disgusted by it. Whatever, you don't have to like it. But I think you'll find few other people having any problems with it.


As for poetry, people are inspired to write by different circumstances. Who cares what the circumstances are, so long as they are writing! biggrin

I'm sorry, did you NOT ask for comments? If you don't want bad feedback on a bad poem then don't post a bad poem. You can't get mad at us for giving you what you want. And learn to take criticism. The world is full of hate, and if you don't learn to take it you're going to wind up killing yourself.

Please comment =/= kiss my a**/suck up to me.

So grow up and don't b***h for getting what you want.

GUYS.

I sense a lot of ASSWHOLERY coming from this thread.

STOP IT.

Kthanzx.

Guess what? Constructive criticism does not equal insults. Less attacks, more advice and sharing.

For both sides.

No more name calling.