[Marion Shore]

Humorist, Heal Thyself

Ogden Nash

When I have fears my oeuvre may have gone from bad to verse,
then I yearn to be the man who stands in the OR and hollers "Nurse!
Scalpel, please!" Yes, I'd gladly trade places with that feller
who makes the sick get well and the well get weller.
Ah, if I could be the Hippocratic hero responsible
for removing many an appendix or kidney stone or tonsible,
how lordly in spotless labcoat I'd stand
dispensing prescriptions in an illegible hand.
But the one thing that almost always raises my spirits after
these sessions of self-doubt is the old adage that laughter
is the best medicine, or so some insist.
Well if this is true, then I'm a specialist:
a practitioner of puns and limericks and silly rhymes too numerous
to count. That's right. A doctor of the humerus.*

*Although some purist will undoubtedly point out that the sensation of numbness
.......attributed to the funnybone, aka humerus, is actually caused by the ulnar nerve.
But 'twill serve.

adage fixed. Thanks, Professor.