news today

today i opened up the heavy information
device given to me by my new travail
and clip clap tip tap began
to do a thing or two

a note came through
i opened it like any other
it didn't say much,
'sides 'read the attached'

clicked 'the attached'
a note from a doc
it didn't say much
but i noticed it
was on stationary
from the children's hospital
a doctor of cancer
and blood

i closed the first document
clicked twice, thrice, on the second
from the momma
she is so happy to share we can treat her
little girl
like 'a normal kid' for
about a month and a half at
school

oh.

tomorrow, in my first class of the day
i'll meet this little force
and i intend to do it with joy
she may only get 4 or 5 classes
before the cancer
makes her stay home
again she's only
three

pain and mirth
arrive side by
side by side by
side by
side in my
virtual mail

i do not know
how to be human
with this

i become water and salt
tomorrow i'll be
song, and hope
somehow