Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Day 210: The scrotal elephantiasis that became part of his life

A man in Vegas has a scrotum bloated
to half the size of Michelangelo's 
Pietà--not the clone in Utah, quoted
the New York Daily News, but even so,
it's pretty big. The Vatican keeps tabs
on all the replicas, and doesn't care
that Mary's looking pretty fly on slabs
of phony stone. In Vegas, surgeons stare
like normal folk--their litany is, "Carve
and maybe live, or don't and die. 'Hail Mary'
means million-dollar medicine. We'd starve
on less." Big donors front the cash, but scary
risks end it. Scrotum dude departs the one
percent balls-broke, cemented at square one.

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