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TODAY I saw a face--it was a beak, That peered, with pale round yellow vapid eyes, Above the ****** muck that had been lips And teeth and chin. A plodding doctor poured Some water through a rubber down a hole He made in that black bag of ***** blood. The beak revived, it smiled--as chickens smile. The doctor hopes he'll find the man a tongue To tell with, what he used to be.
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In a Red Cross Hospital
TODAY I saw a face--it was a beak, That peered, with pale round yellow vapid eyes, Above the ****** muck that had been lips And teeth and chin. A plodding doctor poured Some water through a rubber down a hole He made in that black bag of ***** blood. The beak revived, it smiled--as chickens smile. The doctor hopes he'll find the man a tongue To tell with, what he used to be.
1883 - 1969/American