Cancer/writing Journal #96
I was tested for my PSA level again last week. Again it was too low to be detected. I asked about going off the testosterone blocker and she (a physician's assistant) wanted to consult with the doctor on the issue. We will discuss it more when I go back in August for another appt. Here is the poem that I wrote for the May meeting of my writer's group. It was well enough received by the group but I don't think I will do more like it. It is written after what I saw as the manner in which my friend, Jan Carroll, would write a poem. Indeed, it was written while I was immersed in Jan's most recent book, Self-Portrait on Scraps of Paper. I wrote a review of it which was published in the local arts and entertainment newspaper, "Volume One". Jan Carroll can pull off writing like this. I don't think I can. I'm too self conscious, too aware of what I am doing. But you judge for yourself whether I was successful here. On Readi...