Everything Must Go
Rosie Garland’s unflinching perspective on her year with throat cancer. She shows how any disease – cancer especially – attacks your humanity. Yet hope & resilience shine through, even when things get tough. Especially when things get tough.
A donor’s card
“There’s nothing here that I’ll be needing.
I don’t do souvenirs. No grave-goods,
no grave. No-one will do their back in
digging me a hole; nor have the job
of unpeeling rotten carnations from my marker.
Stretch me out in a place of arc-lights. Open me up.
Reveal my inner workings, the plot twist no-one was expecting.
Let the harvesting commence. May my heart thump love
in the warm nest of another’s ribs, my liver filter
someone else’s happy anniversary, my lungs give voice
to laughter and whistling out of tune at bus stops.
Lay me to rest under the bright faces, the white coats of angels.”
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Everything Must Go
Rosie Garland’s unflinching perspective on her year with throat cancer. She shows how any disease – cancer especially – attacks your humanity. Yet hope & resilience shine through, even when things get tough. Especially when things get tough.