Matthew Scott Oickle was thirty-eight years old and finally coming into his own as a poet when he received the news. He was terminally ill with colon cancer. Scott had spent years sharpening his craft and fine-tuning his skills as a performing poet. His readings, delivered in a vivid, provocative style, were popular at poetry slams at public coffee houses and other arts scenes on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. From the day he heard the dreaded news from his oncologist, Scott's poetry had new purpose - as an outlet for the anger, the fear, and the frustration over what he considered an unfair fate,...
Matthew Scott Oickle was thirty-eight years old and finally coming into his own as a poet when he received the news. He was terminally ill with colon ...
