Fleur MacDonald

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How to Make a Tumour Disappear, Pat it Lightly...

Posted May 12, 2010 · 32 lines · 4 critiques

Was shit scared
with a dry mouth
just thinking about it
going into hospital

had to wake early
got there too early
waited with my sister
till name was called

don the robes
fill out more forms
say goodbye with photo
lie down and wait

wheeled into small cupboard
kept calm with Nurse

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the doctor distracted me
out like a light

5 hours later
woke up with shining light
loads of babbling
moved to ICU

bit of a blur
with a dry mouth
sucking constantly on icecubes
went into the night

two nurse bed bath
roll over roll over
finger on morphine button
let me sleep please

pat the Tumour lightly
and it will disappear
yell at it hard
it will stick around...

Fleur MacDonald’s timeline

July 2022
02 Sat

Anniversary
15 years of membership
July 2017
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10 years of membership
July 2012
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5 years of membership
July 2010
08 Thu

Received a critique
on Bated Breath from @whitetea
"Is this about a doctors waiting room?"
08 Thu

Received a critique
on How to Make Coffee without a Coffee Maker from @whitetea
"Psychic coffee while in ones birthday suit. I liked your streams of thought here."
May 2010
16 Sun

Received a critique
on Jetstream from @Esker
"all my pens leave me for other hands I enjoyed this write this poem without typewriters its back to pen or pencil im writing longhand again (cant find a vintage manual typewriter) I will go in search of this pen thank y…"
12 Wed

Posted a poem
How to Make a Tumour Disappear, Pat it Lightly...
"Was shit scared"
Open thread 32 lines
08 Sat

Posted a poem
How to Make Coffee without a Coffee Maker
"Wave your"
Open thread 41 lines
06 Thu

Posted a poem
I Left My Tumour At St Vincent's (as if your singing "I left my heart in San Francisco)
"She went"
Open thread 39 lines
August 2009
31 Mon

Most-discussed work
Weirdelf, an ode to a poet...

62 critiques to date.
June 2009
15 Mon

Highest posting month
June 2009 — 22 poems
July 2008
02 Wed

Anniversary
One year of membership
July 2007
07 Sat

First critique offered
on "America the brave" by @weirdelf
07 Sat

First publication
The Darkness of Daylight, 25th April 1915
02 Mon

Joined Neopoet
Membership begins

First poem published 4 days later.

Fleur MacDonald

How to Make a Tumour Disappear, Pat it Lightly...

Fleur MacDonald’s timeline

15 years of membership

10 years of membership

5 years of membership

on Bated Breath from @whitetea

on How to Make Coffee without a Coffee Maker from @whitetea

on Jetstream from @Esker

How to Make a Tumour Disappear, Pat it Lightly...

How to Make Coffee without a Coffee Maker

I Left My Tumour At St Vincent's (as if your singing "I left my heart in San Francisco)

Weirdelf, an ode to a poet...

June 2009 — 22 poems

One year of membership

on "America the brave" by @weirdelf

The Darkness of Daylight, 25th April 1915

Membership begins

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