Sport 37: Winter 2009
six lies for an orthopaedic surgeon
six lies for an orthopaedic surgeon
I
he sat in the
ribcage of a plane
and studied a
parisian church
made of monk bones
II
after eating an apple
he felt like he had
taken an axe to a skull
III
in the great depression
his parents had to
hire bones from the
butcher to make soup
he recalls lifting
the lid off the copper pot
and seeing his first femur
IV
he chanted the
206 bones
in the human skeleton
like a rosary . . .
ulna fibula tibia
V
he showed his twins
maxilla and clavicle
how to remove bones
from their pet goldfish
while it was swimming
VI
when he spoke at the
conference only
the bones of 300
surgeons were listening