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And here's the doctor.

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It's this poem called
"Tongue Doctor."

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"I am one-minute years old.

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People say I'm killing myself
falling into my shadow,

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but they can't see
the uprising part.

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They think I'm being opaque when
I wear sunglasses in the rain.

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So I practically had to
shout, "I'm from Cal!

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La!

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Forn!

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Ya!"

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Haven't always been, once was
from a small Pennsylvanian town

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famous for mummification,
where they treated the brain

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in ways icky and obscure.

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As you would guess,
it's difficult

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maintaining homeostasis.

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Mist escapes my mouth, a geyser
from the weak seal in my head.

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Ever jump out of bed and
realize your head is still

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on the pillow?

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We're all driven forward
by explosion after all.

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I tell you this so you can
prepare yourself for my desire.

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I want to be your tongue doctor.

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First, I will land learn the
polysyllabic Latinate term

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so my job can be immediately
impressive for being

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un-understandable.

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I'll be in constant
legal wrangles,

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but you keep coming
because, for tongue, there's

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really no one else.

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In my waiting
room, you're calmed

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by lute arrangements
of James Brown,

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then led down a
moss-textured hall

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and ask to remove your
pants, sit on tissue paper.

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Then I arrive in my red lab
coat like a peony blooming

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on fast forward and put my
no-harm-causing Hippocratic

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hand upon your breast I
mean shoulder, and say,

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"Let's see that tongue."

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On your tongue I see
your car has broken down.

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I see the clawing at work
on your frenulum, the spiral

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of betrayals that has
been your lovelife

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in the fungiforme papillae,
the falls from the teetertot

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instigated by bacillus-ridden
homunculi bent

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on your destruction.

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I can see your
dead mother glaring

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from her gurney
like a stabbed hawk

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in the glossopalatine arch.

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I see you pressing your face
against the horse's neck

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and weeping, weeping
into an emptying tub.

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I see you lost in tall trees,
the green roots of your hope,

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your being feathering
out at the tips

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to join the feathery
tips of other beings

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like the tops of
tied-together carrots.

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I can see your bravery
changing the pH.

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I can see your
beauty like sparks

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from bashed-together rocks.

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I can see your beauty
like grass on fire.

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I can see how you've bitten
your tongue, my darling,

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trying to keep your secrets."

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