Just back from the surgery <br /> <br />(at least it’s ‘the’ surgery, not <br /> <br />cold-steel ‘surgery’…) <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Surgery. Well-named. <br /> <br />Surges of fear, apprehension, <br /> <br />remorse, injustice, you name it. <br /> <br />On second thoughts, don’t bother. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />The reception room’s OK though. <br /> <br />The counter staff are always ready for <br /> <br />a laugh, a smile, a bit of banter. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Today, it’s ‘Do you mind being video’d? <br /> <br />It’s a training video. If that’s OK, would you sign <br /> <br />now, and again afterwards? ’ <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Cue for joker: you should have warned me, <br /> <br />I’d have gone to Make-Up first, and I only give my signature <br /> <br />for charity these days…send the fee to my agent <br /> <br />and next time my people will talk to your people <br /> <br />about the Pers. App…. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />but they stopped listening halfway. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Then the surgery… it’s like a scene <br /> <br />From Malice in Blunderland: as I enter, <br /> <br />I shrink, am diminished to <br /> <br />a slithery list on her computer screen; <br /> <br />judgment day records, and doomful events of personal life <br /> <br />now mere one-liners.. <br /> <br />a case-history with the added social disadvantage, <br /> <br />sorry, negatively endowed, of <br /> <br />having a face and body.. <br /> <br /> <br />Look for the camera, natch - <br /> <br />always ready to falsify my life <br /> <br />for no-one who might care. <br /> <br />Damn, it's behind me; <br /> <br />looks like truthday here. <br /> <br />Spare you the details <br /> <br />in case you tell me worse.. so <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Exit Dwarf, as Shakespeare would have penned it. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />You could have surfboarded on the final surge <br /> <br />of peripheral dismissed humanity; <br /> <br />too mean now, to say goodbye <br /> <br />to the deception staff.<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/surgery-5/
