I can't configure

我无法订制一块

a tablet

上帝用手指刻字

chiselled by God's finger

的石板

or forge

也没法伪造一张

a scrawled prescription,

医生用潦草字迹

but here's an inscription, formed

写成的药方

on the small white dot

但这里有一段铭文，

of its own

浮现于它自己的白色

full stop,

句点之上，

the sugared pill

一首诗的

of a poem, one sentence

糖衣药片，一句

that speaks ill

让病魔感受病痛

of illness itself, bullet

的语言，一颗

with cancer's name

明目张胆刻着“癌症”名字的

carved brazenly on it.

子弹。