FrankenTit

Dr Rose Drew PhD, FRAI, Cert FA-III is from York UK via Miami USA. She achieved her archaeology doctorate from the University of Winchester, and is a postgraduate of Yale University, and a graduate of other colleges and universities in the UK and the USA. She also attended the University of York. Rose is a performance poet, editor, publisher, teacher, and anthropologist. Lately, she has been working several months a year for an indigenous Band in the Midwestern USA. This little book is about Rose’s medical adventures in mid to late 2024. Rose tends to write about death and skeletons, love and grief, nature and disability. In 2015 she presented a TEDx Pocklington talk ‘Power of the Spoken Word’ on performance poetry, but she swears she doesn’t bang on about it anymore. Really! Rose is tall on the inside.

• Editor’s NoteFrom the AuthorDedication1   My Booby Got Me a Present For My Birthday3   HRT is not for me3   Waiting4   Poltergeist5   It’s Always Something (I’ve already had my worst day) (from 2009)7   Mastectomy8   There’s ‘I’ and there’s TMI10  WTF11  Typecasting12  FrankenTit13  Bear Bait14  Oh get over it16  Untitled 116  Untitled 217  Compartment18  Aim for perfection. Let me know when you arrive19  Saturday Market, Bemidji, July20  Radiation Poems1. Burn It All Down2. Untitled21   3. Internal Monologue4. Fall To The Right23   Space Station24   Lava25   Exile26   Mississippi Headwaters, October27   The Care and Feeding Starving of Your Barbie Tit(s)29   What Went Wrong30   Plot Twist31   Trees Burn32   Tick Tick Tick Tick tick tick tick tick