Parlour Poetry

The Pathologist

A pathologist is a doctor who works in a lab and spends his time looking at bits and pieces that have been chopped out during surgery, and examining blood samples, swabs, and other unmentionable things.

Pity the poor pathologist
Who lurks inside a lab,
Emerging thence at intervals,
Like some strange hermit crab.
He is a shy retiring soul,
Eccentric in his habits.
His chief associates and friends
Are guinea-pigs and rabbits.

His daily round, his common talk,
Is growing germs on seaweed,
Or wandering round the wards to ask
If Mr Bloggs has peed.
You might suspect as you collect
That early morning specimen
That all pathologists must be
Particularly messy men.

But though their habits may appear
To verge on the obscene
In private life, pathologists
Are often fairly clean.


The following poems were inspired by Rosemary West's poetry generator.
This is a shareware MSDOS program, which is downloadable from Tucows
The poems have been substantially modified to produce these final versions.

[picture of a man with flowers] Superman

Superman is getting much too close
and there's nothing I can do about it
He is as subtle as an elephant in heat
and stops for nothing
He turns everything to rubble while bounding in
giant leaps along the yellow brick road
I dare not speak my fear
because I know I've been here before

Chocolates and flowers are unnecessary inventions
when you are a Superman.


[picture of a man with weights] An Olympic
Medalist
 
An olympic medalist is hard to love,
He is well trained.
He sees himself reflected in my eyes
and enjoys the view.
He plays to win.
Yet as I wait at the finishing line
I can not ask for mercy
For there is no barter.
Health and happiness can not be exchanged
by giving up control.


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