A senior said, What is this grass that I am still on the right side of?
It must be a greensward drawing
me forth
An admonishment not to let it grow under my feet
To cherish my roots but not go to seed
To shun the lay-up shot and swing for the pin
A verdant reminder of renewability through medical ingenuity
(Age's ravages, both core and cosmetic, repaired or riposted
Demeter and Persephone perpetuated by Prometheus
and Hephaestus)
A hint that there's nothing greener on the other side
A lush carpet for the feet
to seize upon daily
Because to die is different from what many suppose, and suckier.
O
seniors, fellow seniors,
Finding no sweeter fat than sticks to my own porous bones
I sing the
body eclectic
I calibrate myself and sing of myself
And what I've assumed you can assume
For every procedure pertaining to me as good pertains to you--
The freeze-drying of squamous cell growths
from head to toe
The Mohs surgery
The wrinkled-retina surgery
The cataract surgery
The exfoliations
The teeth-bleaching
The periodontic gum grafts
The thyroid oblation
The rotator cuff therapy
The complete body surveys
The ultrasounds
The CT scans
The MRIs
The
barrage of blood tests
The exponentiation of X rays
The angiogram
The antibiotics for pneumonia
The Flecainide, Metropolol, and Warfarin for a-fib
The Methotrexate and folic acid for rheumatoid arthritis
The Levothyroxine for hypothyroidism
The cortico steroids for polymyalgia rheumatica
The colon polyps excisions
The
testicular cyst excision
The antiobiotics for bladder infection
The thrice daily self-catheterizations
to countermand the importunity of a puffy prostate
The erectile refunctioning
The femoral lipoma
ectomy
The sciatic nerve electrical massage
I sing of the craft of
The dermatologist
The periodontist
The
opthamologist
The endocrinologist
The cardiologist
The orthopedist
The rheumatologist
The hematologist
The gastroenterologist
The nephrologist
The urologist--
All those specialists whose Medicaring has preserved my electrical-chemical self and who stand by to offer me, if needed,
Miracle Ears
Dental implants
Carotid scrapings
Organ transplants
Arterial bypasses or stents
Pacemakers
Defibrillators
Carpal tunnel surgery
Vascular stripping
Diuretics
Bone marrow treatment
Dialysis
Chemotherapies
Radiations
Metal joints
Prosthetic limbs
While
I await science's nano-mapping of the brain and the concomitant promise of wonders to come:
Tissue regeneration
Plastic blood
Kidney cleansers
High IQ cancer cell assassins
Gripping hands
Artifical hearts
Sight-restoring
eyes
Dementia-defeating pacemakers for the brain
Cell phone apps for self-monitoring and -medicating--
A copious cornuhopia of embedded nano devices and microchips
A Kurzweilian robotic re-Booting of a bionic
me
At last readying me--Quantified Self and (O!) Qualified Soul--for an unending ever green passage to India.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself
(I am large, I contain multi 'tudes).