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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BRAIN OPERATION, by EDWARD EVERETT ROLS
First Line: The gnaw, gnaw, gnaw
Last Line: Of eternity.
Subject(s): Surgery
First Line: The gnaw, gnaw, gnaw
Last Line: Of eternity.
Subject(s): Surgery
The gnaw, gnaw, gnaw
Of the cruel biting saw
As it tears its grinding,
Crashing way into the shivering,
Quivering, skull.
Till the blue, blue haze,
Throbs and sways,
And the rasp, rasp, rasp,
Swells into the immensity
Of sighing eons,
And the drone, drone, drone,
Of eternity.
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