What the Doctor Said

My new health plan seems to be

the road to eternity.

“You’re lucky you are not dead”

is what my new doctor said.

He took me off of oxygen

and added no new medicine.

“Come back in four months” he said

“unless by then you are dead.”

He said he wished he could be

as well as me physically.

“Well doc, i will see you again

and try to live without pain.

But now, i am ninety-two;

forty years older than you.“

Walt Abbott 1-26-2012