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Ad Libitum |15 December 1994

Anatomy Lesson

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Amazing,
How the ventricles
And their brutal sinews
Wring to sharp shocks
Down the silver fascicles
And bolus raw blood
Through lungs and brain,
Fingertips and retinae,
To the combusting,
Insatiable tissues:
And how it all narrows
Endlessly outward
From the barbarian heart
Spinning shearness of capillary
To get farther away
Where nothing so clumsy
As huge cells
Can ever pass.
Tom DiSalvo
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Anatomy Lesson. Ann Intern Med. ;121:981. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-121-12-199412150-00015

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1994;121(12):981.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-121-12-199412150-00015

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