tongue raze in sleep-space, out of nowhere, there were bad french kisses and the dreadlocks that didn't touch my skin. you said you'd stay for a few days. all i wanted you to do was leave. so you chased me. it was strange, because in the world where dreams don't happen until you're in that low level coma you go into every night and come out of when you come out of it, whether you've been under long enough or not, you don't chase anyone or anything. you're the one who runs away. i can still feel the little pink snake that lives in your mouth and all its busy indecisive spasmodic dancing. 160511 ... unhinged you text me i think of your tongue on my clavicle your hands on my hips 160512 ... tender_square he bit his tongue while eating food at a resort in cuba and the bump never healed. he got it checked at a clinic and they worried it was cancerous and booked him a biopsy. when doctors slice and dissect, exposing a potentially cancerous site to oxygen, it can make the cluster spread and grow. the specialists have confirmed it's cancer of the tongue. he's never smoked. he's booked for surgery to remove the tumor. he's been told that recovery will take some time. he'll need tubal feedings and radiation. his speech will be impacted. it will be very painful. his mother says he's taken to church, that when she learned the news she said to her son, "at least you'll lose a few pounds." he's worried about being the breadwinner of his family, supporting a wife and two grown sons (and a small grandson) who have failed to launch. instead of rallying around their father, their husband, everyone is falling apart. a friend of our family says she knew someone, a young woman in her forties who had the same diagnosis. surgeons kept taking pieces of her tongue as the cancer spread. then her jaw, and her face. the cancer moved to her arterial line. she couldn't speak. she was in constant pain. she died by assisted suicide after doctors said there was nothing they could do for her. 230505 what's it to you? who go blather from