What to Predict?

My phone keypad knows my life –

Knows it too well, and there again perhaps

Not quite well enough.  It makes mistakes.

 

Who is on what?  Anthony on the radio

While I’m on radiotherapy?  Why not

Reverse the guess?  Do I want it to

 

Default to Interferon rather than interesting?

I admire the jump from carcinoid to

Crisis – although that sequence terrifies.

 

It knows that Adam’s goes with

Graduation.  It knows that York must

Follow.  But no – I don’t want it

 

To take me to hospital.  I’ll fight back.

Let’s call it my Chelsea hotel.

Remember, phone.  Chelsea HOTEL.  

 

Written at The Royal Marsden Hospital, Chelsea