Leaving Maps

Busily gilding the pirate’s trade,
The poets with cancer carry on
Searching for meaningful things to say

About treatment experiences,
The people one meets in the trenches,
The confusion of the end with God,

The confusion of the end without,
The little bastard pirates themselves,
Absorbed in boarding and slaughtering

Every organ they can commandeer,
Microscopic metaphors for all
Life, micro and macro, which won’t stop

Consuming life until life itself
Consumes life itself by life itself.