Anne’s Red Pepper Revolution

Anne’s Red Pepper Revolution

“The food of the true revolutionary is the red pepper. [She] who cannot endure red peppers is also unable to fight.”

-Chairman Mao Zedong, a native of chili-loving Hunan province, famously linked the consumption of spicy food to revolutionary fervour.

Anne liberally sprinkles Sichuan courage on her noodles–

A revolution in the kitchen,

but a stand, nonetheless.

She will not surrender her palate;

her tongue, set ablaze, is the last occupied corporal territory.

If brain tumours are invaders, her tastebuds are partisans,

plotting sabotage with every fiery bite.

Red pepper: the secret handshake of the defiant.

She fights, lips numb, brow glistening,

driving back inevitability with a spoon.

Tomorrow’s victory may be pyrrhic or peppery,

but today, her revolution burns gloriously on.

If you feel like keeping track of Anne’s cancer journey, I’m chronicling it here:

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Your friend,

Robert

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