J tells her friend, and her friend says: 

- So are you two talking about it?

- Oh, yes.Yes. 

[What J could have added is:

- And for months now, we’ve been trying, really trying, to get to the point where not every conversation, inside & out of the house, all day & all evening long and even in the small hours, is about flaming cancer. But we’re not there yet.] 




annoyingly

my mouth

keeps saying

nymph lode