StarCat/CatStar

ecause I wore your shirt to my first surgery
and then my second
and then my third
when they couldn’t scrap all that cancer out
because it was 2014
and it was your year of magical thinking too,
David Robert Jones, you mortal man, you
who
like me,
sat in
a clean white doctor's office one day
and was ushered into a new strange life.
Author bio: Ally Malinenko is the author of the poetry collections The
Wanting Bone and How To Be An American (Six Gallery Press) as well as
the novel This is Sarah (Bookfish Books). Better Luck Next Year, a poetry
collection, is forthcoming from Low Ghost Press in 2016. She's
@AllyMalinenko where she blathers on mostly about Doctor Who and David
Bowie.