In the Extra Years
English

About The Book

<p>         In the Extra Years by Roger Sippl is a poetry book. It's about how I spent the rest of my life after I survived at age nineteen Hodgkin's Lymphoma a type of cancer that at the time only gave me a twenty percent chance of living further. This book is poetry. Therefore it doesn't detail everything I did. Many events in my past just don't make good poetry.</p><p>           I took three companies public and although it got me the Golden Hat Trick Award from my underwriter Cristina Morgan all that business stuff just isn't very lyrical although I suppose someday I should try to make it so. But there is a little factoid that does make for a good story if not a poem. Once for a week-long party with my friends in the Caribbean I chartered a cruise ship.</p><p>           It only had 50 staterooms so it was a small cruise ship as cruise ships go. Chartering it was motivated by the desire when I thought I was dying to just go to the beach with my friends. When I thought I was going to lose them all all at once that was my number one thought. Years after my cancer treatment I had some success in the software business and I realized I never took that time to hang out with my friends on a sunny day in the sand. After the third IPO I decided I was probably at the peak of things so I declared it to be The Year of Roger and took my friends on this trip to the beach - which became The Year of Roger Cruise complete with logowear fireworks one night a toga party another and the inevitable martini-tasting contest with talent show put on completely by my guests.</p><p>           I did things like that in the extra years. Perhaps all my life I was that way in my mind but after cancer I lived it - too confident impulsive and too willing to forget about the consequences of failure. Cancer made me more sure that nothing good was going to happen for me unless I made it happen and further bad things were definitely going to happen no matter what so I better enjoy my life right now before it's too late.</p><p>           Whether you call it a good attitude or a bad attitude it made for a wonderful life. In my next book I'll fill in the blanks between the poems with prose explain what was going on when I wrote each poem and what I meant to say by writing it to the extent I know. But for now I'll leave you with just the poems and you'll have the luxury of exactly your own interpretation.</p><p>           Please let me know any thoughts you have on any of the poems or the whole collection at roger@sipmac.com.</p>
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