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Angiogram Plan

I’m going for an angiogram
With slanted rhymes I state my plan
In verse and meter try to cram
My words with all that old flim-flam

Since Days when I lay in my pram
This ticker’s beat to master plan
Ticked off more than expected span
Now due rewind for tick tock scan

My next door neighbours: Stan and Pam
Eat only vegetarian
They chew, with cake holes full of yam 
Eschewing lamb and ram and spam

But me, I’ll go for an Angio ‘cram’
That feeds my heart with special jam
Revealing truth on x-ray scan
To Doc Achan - cos he’s da man

So let’s hear it for the Angiogram
It tells what’s what in there, no sham
Like portrait by an old Dutch man
Displayed in Delft or Amsterdam

Then if for me it goes to plan
With prayer and blessed by God and man
And cardiology grand slam
My heart still pumping boom bang-a-bam

Copyright © | Year Posted 2021




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Date: 11/5/2021 4:26:00 PM
Love this one. Whimiscal as can be!! I think this was a contest, right? did it ever get judged? this sure should win!!
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Date: 10/18/2021 2:04:00 AM
Here's to toasting your poem with a wee dram :) I really enjoyed reading it..made me smile this monday morning...but tell me..I'm fascinated now..your neighbours..they're not really a Stan and Pam are they? Are they?? :)
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Geoffrey Brewer
Date: 10/18/2021 3:48:00 AM
Would I lie? Er! Yes. But I call it ‘poetic licence’. Thanks, Gary. I’ll take a dram when I’m of the meds.

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