March 23, 2016

Medical Advice, Circa 1945

(2007)

Hesitate when excising a frontal lobe.

The procedure can result in disaster.

Utmost skill and confidence are needed to probe

 

without culpability, the patient dis-robed.

Practice on uneducated or unemployed.  

Hesitate.  When excising a frontal lobe.

 

You are the personality’s quiet erasure.

Institutionalize mistakes.  Maintain the posture

of utmost skill and confidence are needed to probe.

 

The hysterical brain reduced to something knowable.

A mass. A fault. A thing to master.

Hesitate when excising a frontal lobe.

 

The seat of passion flickers—interruptible.

Meds may soften; the needle works faster.

Hesitate when excising a frontal lobe.

Utmost skill and confidence are needed to probe.

  

 Record success. Discard the irreparable.

History will call you doctor. Not disaster.

Hesitate when excising a frontal lobe.

Utmost skill and confidence are needed to probe.