Your Card Is the King of Rats

Any Good Poem

Richard Berlin, MD, shares Martín Espada's poem "Your Card Is the King of Rats."

Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 25 years in Psychiatric Times™ in a column called “Poetry of the Times.” He is instructor in psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts. His latest book is Freud on My Couch.