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What Cancer Can Do

Prevention tips, or keeping cancer at bay

By Denise E LindquistPublished about a year ago • 1 min read
What Cancer Can Do
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Cancer can make you lose your hair

and have difficulty going up a stair

Cancer does kill

Even with a certain pill

It can remove your immunity

or make it weak.

~

Where is my community

when needed. I seek

the help to get through this

I miss my sis

leukemia killed her

yes, my sister

now, maybe her mister

~

Plants to take the toxins out of the air

Air purifiers sitting all over is fair

running them when we are out of the house

is the best as they do make noise, the spouse

prefers using them when we are gone

walk on the treadmill, don't mow the lawn

roundup has been blamed for my type of cancer

it is important not to kill the dandelions

Or plant a crop that they spray is one answer

Someone told me to eat more onions

~

I take the doable tips and diet is one of those

and some of those tips blows

sugar feeds cancer they say.

I don't eat it today.

Fruit and carrots are the exception

some things are a misconception

I have a chi machine

and I do eat more green

and there is exercise

I try to stop eating fries

~

Far infrared

in something like a tanning bed

to stay in to kill cancer

yes sir

there is a protocol

give Linda a call

Then an ERE machine

Eat a few more bean

I don't smoke

smoking is no joke

~

Prevention is to laugh more

and to cry more, something I abhor

Well, not the laughing today

It guarantees a better day

Even just fake laughter and smiles

Our brain doesn't know the difference

We can go far on fake smiles, yes, miles

So many things are just indifference

Get in the game

I know that sounds lame

Eat right, exercise, and handle the toxins

are my main focus today

and to rock out in my moccasins

Now laugh and cry more and enjoy your day

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About the Creator

Denise E Lindquist

Retired, working part-time as a Native American culture consultant. I have an MSE, and an ABD. I write on Vocal, and Facebook. Poetry, non-fiction mostly, and working on fiction. Wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.

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    Written by Denise E Lindquist