Noah's Ark
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| | Jen Green | Naturopathic Doctor, Rose Cancer Center, Michigan Where you grew up:
Toronto, Canada College Attended:
McMaster University Medical School: Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Class of 2000 Favorite quote:
Never doublt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead | | |
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Jen Green
Tears in bathwater
the flood of
poison we make we spray we clean with
factories of toxins, ads
and needs made for it
Dumping dumping
in food, in walls
In the IV, Chemo solution
fight poison with poison
The hair of the dog that bit you.
the hair of the dog that
was your faithful companion
in white paper, saran wrap
dry cleaning and yes,
mother's milk
A pause to weep.
How could it ever come to this??
Radical compassion
Mastectomy
Cut off for the greater good
Survival of the whole
Which whole?
Women in fragments,
lung liver bone
pieces of mice measured out,
"Did the implanted tumors shrink or grow
shrink or grow?"
Our bodies betray us
mother grows wild in our breast
Nature run amuck
Hah.
Splice greed, not gene
Only a blind eye
Denies
Cancer clusters on the map
Rivers like veins, tracing the flow from dumpsites
to pathology reports.
with hair falling
sanity slipping
so as to meet our marketing goals
projections fail to read
the cost of
life, lost love
cancer, lost species
Cost of living
living earth.
Commentary: After working for 13 years in cancer care, I notice how challenging it continues for us all to see the big picture - to treat the person and not the disease, to treat the internal ecosystem rather than just the tumor site, to treat genes rather than clean up the environment that determines the expression of those genes.
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