Sick Trick
13 July 2011
How often do we listen to the shrillness
Of conversations about illness?
There was the first grade tonsillectomy,
Then in junior high an appendectomy,
After the last child came a hysterectomy
And last month was a lumpectomy.
Complaining and comparing aches, pains,
Sickness and operations pays dividends
In the form of unintended secondary gains
By helping us stay in touch with friends.
Without a medical history to flout
What else would we talk about?
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