laugh i nearly died

 laugh - i nearly died 

and then in the femoral artery 

slips in the stainless steel

and the iodine stained alabaster 

feels the pale oxygen unreel

and then in the great trochanter 

around which the hippies reel and reel 

daisies in headscarfs and wines all banter

they sing that life’s no big deal

and then in the hypothalamus 

in the pituitary axis’s to and flow

the orchestra tunes up before us

for it’s nearly time for the show

and then in the inside of outside

the cranium is clearly cleaved

meninges that spidered about, ride

over the gyri and sulci bereaved 

and then in text book before you

all swirls in an exhaustion belied 

you head falls bump on the word ague

and in hyperthermia your thoughts are all fried

this body of knowledge eternal

has been named by those gone before

you could try the topic venereal 

but the gloves and the slides are a bore

so take no decisions lightly

until every diagnosis has been explored

then nail the lesion quite sprightly

and no one need ever be bored

for doctor my love i trust you

but god only knows why i should

if you follow a rhyme

it will take you no time

to write some silly old verse

and if it’s a medical rhyme

it certainly will be no time

before they take you away in a hearse