27.
How write about oil without writing about
disease? The CT scan after ingesting
the liquid luminescent, the two colonoscopies,
the first commencing before I was fully
under, the second followed by a strawberry
milkshake and the deepest midday nap
of my life, the take-home fecal tests
that came back negative, negative a positive
but not an answer, the inconclusive doctor
visits, the theories, the diagnoses, stress,
IBS, IDK, the changes of diet, grain-free,
dairy-free, not free, expensive, the fear I had,
the certainty I had the colon cancer killing
my mother, the realization the body, too, can grieve.
