The Handshake

Jason David Eubanks, MD

Current Author Address: Jason David Eubanks, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3471 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.

I told him I would cut on his neck,

Right between his pulsating carotid

And the slippery esophagus;

I would scrape out his tired old disc,

Stuff, in its place, a piece of his pelvis,

And, despite an arm he wanted to amputate for pain,

It took him six, shivering weeks to consent,

So strong his nose's smell of death.

Rolling him into the operating room

This father of two lifted blue-collared hands,

Beautifully manicured,

The gloss of the nails shining under...

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