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Poem of the week: I guess it was my destiny to live so long by June Jordan

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The poet confronts her terminal cancer without flinching but asserts a defiant will to live

I guess it was my destiny to live so long

Death chase me down
death’s way
uproot a breast
infest the lymph nodes
crack a femur
rip morale
to shreds

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