7 Medical Retrodictions

7 Medical Retrodictions

 

 

From searing slash of surgery

From dental pang of drilling teeth

From woman’s birthing agony

the Numbing Needle grants relief.

 

A warning needle prevents disease,

Expires a fire more dire than war;

Your body’s on guard, your mind’s at ease;

Away, O Plague, forever more.

 

The Porcelain Throne! O hole-some seat!

O honest chair approached in haste!

For public health, relief, retreat;

All other thrones, compared, are waste!

 

A day that fever lays you ill;

A plague of pests too small to see;

A mold compressed into a pill;

‘Tis death for them but not for thee.

 

Beyond the blue beyond the blue,

A light too high for eye to see,

To skry the bones inside of you,

And see the teeth inside of me.

 

They’re a multitude of specks of goo

and each teeny beast is weak;

But they’re everywhere, and they’re mighty, too;

They’re the Lords of Earth, the meek.

 

By G, by T, by C, by A,

By double helix in each germ,

By count of twisted ladder’s way

The unity of life confirm.