I
Becky and Lucy
can’t be treated surgically. Depression:
whatever came for the crumbs. He missed
frantically and pecked at his hand.
Therapies must be tried first, leaving few
without screaming. A careful reading of
He Came Back The Next Day With A Rock,
their psychiatrists thought.
II
Who would believe the poor
were the first to undergo psychosurgery?
Surgical treatments? Yes, thus the Pool of Pa:
manic depressives and obsessive cum.
And thus, the silk hat:
Lincoln tipping his high, stiff
beautiful cardinal by its leg. It chirped.
