Listen I love having the gallows humor of a cancer survivor
comes from one of my favorite late alcoholic
impoverished poets--
how uncommon-- Charles Bukowski, "The Laughing Heart."
"Your life is your life.
Don't let it be clubbed into dank submission.
Be on the watch.
There are ways out.
There is a light somewhere.
It may not be much light, but it beats the darkness.
Be on the watch.
The gods will offer you chances.
Know them.
Take them.
You can't beat death, but you can beat death in life
sometimes.
And the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
Your life is your life.
Know it while you have it.
You are marvelous.
The gods wait to delight in you."
"The Laughing Heart" by Charles Bukowski.