Twofer Freebies

Sure I was good

with other MDs

ordering MRIs

of my abdomen

& brain to learn

all they could

‘bout unplanned

bit of weight loss

plus bothersome

dizziness

but what

motivated me

more was rule

out pancreatic

crabs lurking

with less than

10% five-year

survival, or if

cerebral Ger’s

ventricles/

parenchyma

demonstrated

space-occupying

lesions, ischemia

well as by far most

importantly any

signs of thinning

might just suggest

mid-septuagenarian’s

looming dementia.

Gerard Sarnat

Gerard Sarnat MD has won the Poetry in the Arts First Place Award plus the Dorfman Prize; has been nominated for a handful of recent Pushcarts plus Best of the Net Awards; has authored HOMELESS CHRONICLES (2010), Disputes (2012), 17s (2014) and Melting The Ice King (2016); and is widely published including recently by New Ulster, Gargoyle, Stanford, Oberlin, Pomona, Penn, Dartmouth, Wesleyan, Johns Hopkins, Virginia Commonwealth, Harvard, and many more. His poetry was chosen for a 50th Harvard reunion Dylan symposium. Gerry’s been married since 1969 with three kids, five grandsons and looking forward to future granddaughters.