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This is a poem from--

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I did have cancer.

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I had two breast
cancer patients.

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And this is called
Lumpectomy Eve.

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I was-- I had a lumpectomy,
and with the other, mastectomy.

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And if you don't know what those
mean, somebody will tell you.

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I am not the only person in this
room who's had breast cancer.

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And I include men.

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Richard Roundtree, the
actor, had breast cancer.

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For a man, that's
probably scary.

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For a woman, too,
but [INAUDIBLE]..

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Anyway, "Lumpectomy Eve."

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All night, I dream of lips
that nursed and nursed,

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and the lonely
nipple lost in loss,

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and the need to feed that
turns at last on itself that

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will kill its body
for its hunger's sake.

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All night, I hear the
whispering, the soft,

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love calls you to this
knife, for love, for love.

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All night, it is the one
breast comforting the other.

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