One Fine Day

   The chainsaw kicked. He never saw it come,
  Nor felt the impact where the chain bit through.
   He only KNEW. And yanking quickly down,
   He pulled the bloody chainbar from his neck
   And headed for the tractor, stumbling, faint.
 
   A nearby friend in horror gasped and threw
   The tools into the trailer on the run
   Then hopped the fender by his wounded friend
   Who drove them out tight clinging to the wheel
   To keep from passing out as waves of black
   Swept over him and, fought against, gave up.
 
   The ambulance was swift and bore him far.
   He joked along the way to keep his cool.
   But then they left him sitting in ER
   Where interns came to view his gaping hole
   And ask, "How could a chainsaw cut your neck?!"
   To hear, incredibly, the flip reply
 "It slipped while I was shaving." But his thoughts
   Grew more impatient as the hours passed.
 And when they finally came to tend his wound,
   The natural anesthesia of the shock
   Had given way to searing pain as they
 Injected novocaine to start repairs
 On all the ragged chunks and jagged tears.
 
 The plastic surgeon stitched, and pieced, and stitched.
 "After this heals," the plastic surgeon said,
 "There'll be a lot of scars. I'll see you back."
  "You wanna bet? No way!" he told the doc.
 "My beard'll grow back in, an' I ain't vain."
 And still the surgeon stitched and ceased to count.
 "That chain went deep, and almost did you in.
 Just missed your windpipe and your jugular vein.
 Another centimeter either way
 You wouldn't be just 'treated and released'."
 Like well-trained parrots all the staff chimed in,
 "You sure were lucky!" "Yeah, some luck," he thought,
 As nimble fingers stitched, and pieced, and stitched.

   He didn't feel so lucky, nor would they,
   If faced with days of idleness and pain,
 And no insurance. Still, he was alive.
 And she could go apply for medicaid.
 And friends would come and help. And he could rest.
 And heal. And contemplate. And plan. And sip
 On soothing milkshakes. Play with kids--but just
 The quiet games. And watch TV. And think.
 
    --by Bonnie Myers Colton

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