a poem about a cure for cancer?

[mint]

Yes, really!  And I love the story.....

[url]https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/14/simon-armitage-writes-microscopic-cancer-poem-poet-laureate[/url]

[Hoddy]

.......... and I love Simon Armitage.

[mint]

Hoddy, did you read the poem in full?

Would you like me to post it on here?

[Gardengirl]

What a good idea to have his excellent poem engraved onto the replica cancer pill, and excellent publicity for the Institute of Cancer Research, which commissioned the poem.

[Loiseau]

QUOTE mint

Would you like me to post it on here?

END QUOTE

Yes please, mint. There only seem to be extracts in the article, and it does seem beautiful.

EDIT

oh, I see from your other post that you would prefer not to. Pas de souci.

[mint]

Dear Loiseau, your wish is my command[:D]

Finishing It

I can’t configure

a tablet

chiselled by God’s finger

or forge

a scrawled prescription,

but here’s an inscription, formed

on the small white dot

of its own

full stop,

the sugared pill

of a poem, one sentence

that speaks ill

of illness itself, bullet

with cancer’s name

carved brazenly on it.

[Loiseau]

Bisous, mint.

It's beautifully put, with such economy of words yet boundless depth of feeling.