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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TIMELY TOPIC, by WALT MASON Poet's Biography
First Line: When modern people get together, they do
Last Line: Mix a drastic potion, and take it with a spoon!
Subject(s): Health; Medicine; Physicians; Sickness; Surgery; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors; Illness
First Line: When modern people get together, they do
Last Line: Mix a drastic potion, and take it with a spoon!
Subject(s): Health; Medicine; Physicians; Sickness; Surgery; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors; Illness
WHEN modern people get together, they do not talk about the weather, as fellows
used to do; but each one, in his conversation, describes some painful operation
that lately he's gone through. The innocent bystander catches, while listening,
disjointed snatches of talk that runs this way: "Oh, yes, I went to Dr. Sidney,
and he removed my starboard kidney—his bill I've yet to pay." "The surgeon,
in a boastful humor, still quotes my large, ingrowing tumor, as worst he ever
saw." "When from the chloroform emergin', I clinched my fist and soaked the
surgeon a dinger on the jaw." "That old Doc Faker is a wizard; the way that he
cut out my gizzard was something simply fine." "Doc Chestnut says my system's
rusty, and he will take his bucksaw trusty, and amputate my spine." "The doc
assures me my salvation depends alone on amputation, if I would shake the gout."
"I hear that Jeremiah Proctor has hired a famous eastern doctor to dig some
organs out." 'Twixt them and me the gulf grows wider; alas, I am a rank
outsider—I never have been hewn! When my insides are in commotion I simply
mix a drastic potion, and take it with a spoon!
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