Saturday, March 11, 2023

mmmdccclxxxviii

getting a second opinion

are you a doctor? i get it.
so i ask him the question
that’s been bugging me
for nearly 36 hours. oh,
a diagnosis, he says, is
not everything. but at
least it is something.
i think i’m pretty bony,
and then i look at this
so-called doctor. i used
to know the names of a
lot of human bones. not
just their street names,
but their names. there
was a character in the
high school whodunnit
whose name was una.
i think she later broke
her ulna. tibia, femur,
clavicle, shin, mandible,
saccrum, coccyx, jaw,
hammer, anvil, stirrup.


plastic skull with gold-rimmed sparkly glasses