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OK, so the first
poem in the book

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is called "My Hand and Cold."

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Of surgeons putting their
knives to erroneous body parts,

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stories abound.

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So can you really
blame my neighbor

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for how, heading
into the operation,

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he wrote across his good
knee, "not this knee"?

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The death of me.

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I'm never half so bold.

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"You will feel," the doctor
said, "my hand and cold."

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And I thought of the
pub quiz question,

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which three countries
are entirely inside

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of other countries?

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I bought the bound
1,000 Names for Baby,

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made two lists, one if she's
born breathing, one if not.

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The second list was longer,
so much that I might call her,

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if she were never to bear the
name, never to turn to it,

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suffer shaming, mull its
range and implications,

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blame it, change it,
move away to San Marino,

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Vatican City, Lesotho.

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