Herbert Nehrlich - Trans-Oesophageal Echocardiogram

Poetry is when you can put
a camera down the feed tube,
call it TOE for trans-esophageal
and then you look at the heart from behind.
It'll tell you a few things
but it won't allow you to look into the
heart of a human being.
For that, you'll have to,
well, you have to....

Herbert Nehrlich

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