Body,

I can feel it failing, 

I can feel my lymph nodes swell.

There is light, 

But I don't want the flashing lights of an ambulance, 

Words are powerful, 

As the washing machine stops, the coffee is drunk, the clean clothes are hung. 

When the Cops turn up, I want to say to them can you reach that light bulb, can you reach that ladder, 

My landlord has cancer too, 

Through his bones, through his  back, 

I cough because there's a leak in the roof, they think it's corona virus, but it's not, 

I want another test, 

But I put it off, 

Afraid of results, 

At least the washing I hang