Eleven, that Odd, Unfortunate Number

Eleven, that Odd, Unfortunate Number

When everything is wrong or slightly wrong, such

As sex and love and friendship, all that you can

Expect are travesties like using a crutch

Pressed into an armpit tumor in a man

 

Endeavoring to walk the world, every part

Of it, as if a robust specimen

Were making this attempt.  Cancer at the heart

And thigh needs a non-existent medicine

   

Especially when it is spreading throughout

The self-created victims, in this case two

Of them.  In fact the lumps managed to spew out

And harm this pair’s entire environment, too.

  A cancer that metastasizes chest

    To chest ruins every goodness in its quest.