Time Surgery Poems

Surgery today for Sara
     The surgeon will do his best
          She’s out...

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I am certain that I am unwell.
A swelling golf ball
Lodged deep beneath my skin
Makes sure of that. 

The floors of Ward 6
Are mirror-clean and sterile,
A...

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In 1996 I was living in DC
while serving as a diplomat
At the State Department
My wife was in the military
Serving as a major in San Antonio
...

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I saw Bill Boniface
With a matching bony face
That could make one do a race
To disappear without trace!

Boniface womanizer:
Vocation, vulcanizer …
And women check profession!
Against future Recession;
Also,...

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Surgery 

After my morning shower, I noticed blood from my middle toe
(the one beside the big toe) I bent down the nail was loosened
I pulled...

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his last gasp was quite lengthy
trying to go out with a bang as usual
a rationalist manifesto covering his face
accompanied by a cotton field work song
his...

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Devotion Poem Seven, The Unknowing

(Written for Jim Eslinger, as I face complex surgery)


The difficult coming days shall combine
Into a memory of run hours.
And the hours...

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Hand surgeon, aptly named Charlie 
Had a habit most folk view bizarrely
Each day before patients lay on his table
He sniffed a line or two which...

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Oh, how greatly I suffer even though I know it's for a little while.
I take the meds which make me recover, but I feel more...

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suffocating footle      time for a trochee-ostomy...

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 In darkness the miles clicked by. Only reflections from road signs
and car lights brightened the way. The miles seemed to flow slowly but yet...

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Was tired of my wrinkles
and crinkles around my eyes,
the ones around my mouth
and my forehead on my face,
and couldn't afford the real thing
so thought I'd...

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Feel a flutter deep within
do not think cupid will play
my heart is arythmic, blood is thin
heart condition here to stay.

Hope the surgery be survived
cannot do...

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With my pen I operate my skin
Unveiling my within yes my scheme
In agony and pain boiling as steam
From my veins multiples of stream
flowing in style...

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As I saw your
caged
soul rioting for my
attention, I knew
you to be my 
perfect
victim and started
envisioning how to
ravage
your beauty so it could 
ensnare
and impersonate my
lifetime wishes

Fearlessly...

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