Doctor Doctor: Give Me the News
The only one who calls me doctor
is my dentist’s assistant
My brother-in-law was a heart
surgeon and my uncle worked
on brains.
Uncle William invented tools for
lobotomies called Scoville Retractors
He once slipped up and reconfigured
a patient’s memory. Had to be re-
introduced to his wife every time he
saw her for the rest of his life.
Be here now: where he lived from then
on. Now only.
My brother-in-law made enough to buy
a grill-your-own steak house on Tunnel
Road where I took Doctor Mycoff during
his candidate interview.
A hagiographer: Dr. M taught me the
meaning of saintly, what it's like to be
one.
Docile. Docent. Doctor initially meant to
take, to teach, “to come to be accepted."
When they call for one in the house, they
aren't asking for me & my philosophy.
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