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Dr Kawaskai operated on my sister who had a broken neck and she is fine 

Tribute to Dr Kawasaki

I am going to fly until I cannot fly any more
In a wink she was gone, my cousin Lenore
She was an expert at brooming and it was her turn
I heard years later that she broke her neck in a giant gray urn

Apparently, her landing was not the best that fall
Luckily, she was in Iowa City, with a surgeon with gall
Named Dr. Kawasaki, he was brilliant with a broken neck.
She flew back in after surgery, and we all ran to inspect….

Yes, she was healing well, the result of a miraculous doc.
Now I have to raise money, she said, to get my broom out of hock.
It seems she had to pay a bit of the enormous expense.
University of Iowa Hospitals requires dollars, not cents.
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