A minor operation is one that is done on someone else |
Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish into the vast sea of God. |
I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy. |
I don't dawdle. I'm a surgeon. I make an incision, do what needs to be done and sew up the wound. There is a beginning, a middle and an end. |
I don't dawdle. I'm a surgeon. I make an incision, do what needs to be done and sew up the wound. There is a beginning, a middle and an end. |
Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine. |
The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale. |
The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks. |
You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus. |