Dropping the Lamb

Richard Berlin

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| April 1, 2002

Dr. Berlin is in private practice in Lenox, Mass., and is associate professor of psychiatry at University of Massachusetts Medical School.

If you're alone in the kitchen and drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know it?-Julia Child Imagine a neurosurgeon in scrubs
hunched over a dead man's chart

writing loops and strands of
twisted prose

illegible as pasta
lying on a plate.

Imagine the quick snip of day-old
sutures,
a scalpel slicing a crust of blood,

the careful retraction of scalp and
brain
to retrieve a wad of gauze

left behind like yesterday's paper
on the back seat of a bus.

And imagine the patient's
brain stem
herniating through the foramen
magnum

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