IT'S ALL RELATIVE
by Sherry S.   

Her sympathetic receptionist
recognizes my voice
and gives me an appointment with
my dermatologist
the same day that I ask, since
the spot on my lip
might not be psoriasis.

I've had a multitude
of skin cancers removed
from forehead to shin
and need to know now
which conundrum I'm in.

When I put down the phone,
I cannot resist
laughing at the irony
of how relative it all is,
that at the top of today's
thoroughly selfish wish list
is a hope for the same old
diagnosis of psoriasis.

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