| The Surgeon by Alicia Suskin Ostriker I was still a kid interning at State he reminisces late in the meal— It was a young red-headed woman looked like my sister when the lines went flat I fell apart shook like a car with a broken axle Went to the head surgeon a fatherly man Boy, he said, you got to fill a graveyard before you know this business and you just did row one, plot one. Alicia Suskin Ostriker, “The Surgeon” from The Book of Seventy. © 2009 University of Pittsburgh Press. Reprinted by permission. |
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