[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Twofer
- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:27:13 -0600
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Mike Geary
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 1:13 PM, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> those of you with northern european complexions will be familiar with
> whack-a-mole
> i went to see my dermatologist
> bothered about slight itch and scale
> like someone mopping up a pacific battlefield with a flamethrower
> she got going with liquid nitrogen
> this may sting a bit
> she said
> then she asked something
> i didn't comprehend
> i'm not at my best in doctors' offices
> she repeated the question
> no i said i haven't seen anything there
> i never look in a mirror
> this is not quite true
> i do glance from time to time
> and of course shave
> but i do not interrogate the image
> as art historians and evil queens will do
> she dug out a knife
> a scalpel
> wanted to biop
> my the bugger stung
> the lie i told myself
> is i might have liked the era better
> when a leather strap between the teeth
> came with a slug of rum
> but had i lived in that era
> i'd naturally be dead
> not only from the swift tromp of passing history
> but also because legions upon legions of lesions
> offed their owners
>
>
>
>
>
> i wrote to the governor today
> to thank him for his courage
> i believe he acted as a leader ought
> but i agree with him
> so my test
> like the death penalty itself
> is neither just nor fair
>
> David Ritchie,
> Portland, Oregon
>
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