orgami's Diaryland Diary

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glass eyes

some troubling in news in
the ship of freinds

My best freind..(I am blessed
to have many best freinds.)
has cancer of the right eye
which coincidently just happens
to be the eye with the least
amount of stigmatism
they have caught it in time
hopefully before it has
spread through his body
His father died of cancer
so maybe its genetic
whatever the cause reason
or why's his options are to
only be left blind with radiation
patchs and operation to cut
the whole defective eye

This man is so kind beneath
his gruff exterior we have
known him since high school
and he looked after me during
my drinking days like a brother
he is my brother

he is getting all sorts of advice
from all eye specialists
He works construction
and needs his eyes to drive
because his left eye is really
very bad to see out of
He basically works for himself
doing landscaping and handyman
work for the wealthy in Toronto
the city He just recently bought
a small house and a new club cab
chevrolet truck and has an
eight month old baby everything
seemed to be going good for him
and his wife and baby and now
this hurdle this large variant
in his life is presented

I who live from day to day
and have no ideas what I want of
life and HE who dreamt large
dreams what ironic cruelty
for my health is good my liver
good even though the drink has
effected my brain somewhat
I still retain most of it
My other best freind has had
numerous opertaions from
removal of his spleen as a child
to his gallbladder to his cancer
on his skin and his diagnosed
Thalmasymia (cannot break down
iron that goes into him The iron
poisons all his internal organs)

we are at the age of Mortality
the second wave after surving the
hectic trying teen years

I have to write my freind now
and say comforting words
he loves to remenisce about when
we were all sort of at this work
shop where he rebuilt his GTO
and we called ourselves the
Summerlords and had jackets
made up with a red cross and
skull on it with Macht Knights
written on the back with Summerlord
underneath Like the christian
zealots who were off to save
jerusalem from the infidels
way back when I used to sit in the shop
and paint my art things and write on
this typewriter poems and a basic
day to day thing much LIke I do here
and he would read them and type out
replies good memories "looking"
back
.......O...

12:21 p.m. - 2005-11-05

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