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The Surgeon

Gotta be patient                                                                                       This is pathetic

              To operate....                                                         Obviously no anaesthetics 

                   A sick surgeon                                          As the doctor and the patient

                                   Urged on                    To put himself under the knife

                                          By a cancerous tumour 

 

death

◄ Illusions

What is he saying? ►

Comments

elPintor

Sun 5th Feb 2017 22:55

Even before I read your comment, the layout came to seem as the cut of a surgeon into skin..a very effective visual.

elP

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Juan Pablo Lynch

Sun 5th Feb 2017 19:47

I wrote this without the even thinking about the V format. it was only when I started typing it here at WOL that I got inspired to lay the poem out as a V starting from Gotta be patient to this is pathetic. Actually had to omit a few lines closing lines to get this lay out.

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