Beyond an open door
He cleaned his instruments
And, in bare feet, spoke
About his need
To right the wrongs.
It led to 60-hour weeks,
So many people
Needing healing,
"We remove no other animal's
Back teeth."
The waiting table books
Were not sold on Amazon.
The truth was spoken here, we knew,
And we talked of every theory
We'd been taught, and how each one
Was wrong, falsified
For our consumption,
And how the world made much more sense
When not hysterical
Like science and the press
But calm and rational
Like the glories of the central
Human mind,
Which was safe
Within the confines
Of this room,
Alhough we felt
The breath
Of outside ice.
