Last Week's NYT Was Abbey Road

Look at this picture:













Does it remind you of this one?













The top is from last Sunday's New York Times' cover story about M.D. Anderson Center in Houston and it's called "A Place Where Cancer is the Norm." The 2nd one is Abbey Road.

I thought of the Beatles with my cup of black coffee as I read about the hospital dedicated to all kinds of cancer. And today, the following Sunday, as I go through my ritual of throwing away the previous Sunday's NYT to replace it with today's, I think of Abbey Road again.

And I look up the song titles. And I see how they fit:

• "Something" (cancer)

• "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" (bang bang, MSH came down upon her head--radiation? surgery?)

• "(She's So Heavy)"

• "Here Comes the Sun" (this is the Kabbalah and Love part from the Hare Krishna guitar whiz who died from cancer. including brain.)

• "You Never Give Me Your Money" (the opposite of the truth when it comes to the health insurance companies and pharmaceutical industry, esp. when it comes to cancer)

• "Mean Mr. Mustard" (see above)

• "Golden Slumbers", "Carry that Weight", and "The End" (it's all too obvious, those three)

Ah, music. Music and cancer. Music and cancer and a photograph in the New York Times. Over coffee. On a Sunday morning. When I'm supposed to be resting.

You say you want a revolution? Too bad. That's the White Album.