Probing Questions
The cerebral arteriogram,
How the doctors love it!
But what with all the risk and pain,
Should I have told them, “Shove it?”
The money that it siphons in
Brings luxury and leisure
Or the patient’s early end
From traumatic seizure.
They pierce you with a little tube
Near the petcock of the torso
And push it to the collarbone,
And then a little more so.
Once they have you threaded up
Like a worm upon a hook
They send up warming squirts of dye
And take an X-ray look.
What they find is seldom that
Which past procedures couldn’t.
You do it if insurance pays,
But would you if it wouldn’t?
