March 21, 2018

MURDER  MYSTERY:

MELANOMA

Melanoma

Plot: murdered by cancer.

My brother loved to read mysteries,

but his own mystery he wanted to

stop reading as soon as he knew the plot:

death by cancer.

Melanoma.

The detective work became the next chapter.

The killer had moved through the dark red rivers

of my brother’s body - this time hiding in his brain.

A tumor had erupted - a mass -  behind his eye.

Chemotherapy - the loss of hair, the loss of strength.

Melanoma.

My brother, died this day, March 21, 1986.

He was in the hospital. The brain surgery didn’t work.

My brother, a book finished, a mystery, finished

too soon - but with many more pages and chapters to go, so many more stories to tell - 

Melanoma.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018