Sugared Three: The Collected Poems

By Elias Sassoon

A poetry collection about juvenile diabetes? Yes. It is about a family of sufferers, a mom, dad, and son dealing with the onslaught of a disease that takes no prisoners. It is an honest look at diabetes taken from the person vantage point of a family so afflicted. Read the inner thoughts of a husband stricken with diabetes at twenty-three and a son stricken at three and a half. The collection itself consists of sixty poems broken into three chapters:

• Chapter 1 of the collection deals with the disease from the husband's perspective.
• Chapter 2 deals with the wife/mother’s feelings of having to deal with both a husband and young son with the disease.
• Chapter 3 is written from my son's perspective and his feelings and thoughts about the disease.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Mar 20, 2014
• ISBN: 9781304958716

Elias Sassoon

Elias Sassoon is the author of approximately, roughly, terminally twenty-five works that include short story collections, novels, poetry collections and non-fiction, essay collections. While producing his writing by night, he has earned his daily wage in honest labor that ranges from professions like teacher/bathroom attendant to a door-to-door bible salesman/fish cleaner and everything in between. Elias continues to work hard, grinding out the words and turning them into literary gems, or if you prefer, literary pearls of wisdom. He lives with his wife, two children and a dog-named Brandon in a suburban area in the vicinity of the great Metropolis known as New York City. There he prepares barbecue dinners for neighbors and friends, roams the area for yard sales, watches flies and other moving insect life die in his backward where he also sits on a metal beach chair deciding on the future of the world as we know it.

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Sugared Three: The Collected Poems

Sugared Three:

The Collected Poems

by

Elias Sassoon

Sugared Three: The Collected Poems

ISBN: 978-1-304-95871-6

Copyright © 2014  by Elias Sassoon

All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical, or, other means, now known or hereafter invented, including xerography, photocopying and recording, or in any information storage  or retrieval systems, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher. This is a work of non-fiction.

First Printing: June 2014

Dedication

To my great friend and literary agent, Mark Mishanie who has stood by me in good and bad times. Thank you and your lovely wife for all your support down through the years.

Table Of Contents

CHAPTER 1 - HUSBAND/FATHER

(Poem 1)- Me, Not You

(Poem 2) - Veins

(Poem 3) - World Blanking Out Molecule By MOLECULE

(Poem 4) - Eat   No   Eat   No   Careful   No

(Poem 5) - Diabetes, My Disease, Not Your Disease

(Poem 6) -You Have It

(Poem 7) – Fooling People

(Poem 8) - Watching The Body

(Poem 9) - Eyes A Poppin

(Poem 10) - The Literature

(Poem 11) - Controlling It!

(Poem 12) - Carbohydrates, Calories And Other Fun Things

(Poem 13) - Exchanging

(Poem 14) - Coming At Me

(Poem 15) - Functionality Loss

(Poem 16) - Pretense

(Poem) 17) - Night Thoughts

(Poem 18) - Health Concerns

(Poem 19) - Sickness At A Stranger

(Poem 20) - Heal, I Said Heal!

CHAPTER 2   WIFE/MOTHER

(Poem 21) - Introducing Her To It

(Poem 22) - You, Your Mother And Discussion Of The Disease

(Poem 23) - Upbringing

(Poem 24) - Recollecting Disaster

Poem 25) - Responsibility Yours

(Poem 26) - Partner In Law

(Poem 27) - Husband Again

(Poem 28) - Diabetes Mellitus And You

(Poem 29) - Viewing The Force

(Poem 30) - Not Being Pleased

(Poem 31) - Newspaper Looks

(Poem 32) - Independently Speaking

(Poem 33) - Woman To Woman

(Poem 34) - In The Army, Military Style

(Poem 35) - Friend But Unknown

(Poem 36) - The Big 'D' In Pregnancy

(Poem 37) - Surface Concerns

(Poem 38) - Anniversary

(Poem 39) - He Will Do As I Say

(Poem 40) - Mother, Responsibility, Blame

CHAPTER 3    CHILD/SON

(Poem 41)  - Boy, Just, A,

(Poem 42) - Teacher Of The Diabetic

(Poem 43) - At School With The Nurse

(Poem 44) - I Don't Understand

(Poem 45) - Feeling Bad*

(Poem 46) - Little Guy,