Chlora's Good Samaritan Dr. Kit
© 1999 Ginger Henry Geyer
glazed porcelain with platinum
Dr. Bag: 7" x 9" x 4 ½"
Adaptation from Luca Giordano's The Good Samaritan
(link to Chlora's Bandwagon)
The ambulance’s steering was shot
from hitting speed bumps, so sometimes paramedics
had to walk and carry their own bag like the Good Samaritan,
that Good Communist, always prepared like a Cub Scout
with his special salad dressing for wounds.
Chlora's E.R. kit was new and improved,
everything necessary for playing doctor.
A wee little bedpan, a thermometer to stick
where the sun never shines, and the basic aids for
throwing up. She was determined to reenact her
Sunday School lesson so she looked for victims
on the side of the road, but if they complained
she'd whack them on the knee for no good reason
and apply Band-Aids to their hairy arms.
The candy pill bottle was kindly refilled by her pet rabbit and
Yes! she would save those sin-sick souls and even lives,
if she could radio ahead like Dick Tracy.
She practiced heart transplants on her Invisible Man model
and ate Popeye spinach, strength for the journey from religion to ruin,
the street that goes both ways.
Chlora was an ace at wrapping.
She specialized in swaddling clothes and Egyptian mummies.
She would take lessons from Christo and Mr. Wimple,
commandeer a Welcome Wagon, make a hundred house calls
and really find out who her neighbors were.
