What do chiropractors do
when they chiropract on you?
my experience has been,
they must think that we are green:
First they lay you on your back,
then proceed with an attack
upon your joints and vertebrae,
saying you’ll be fine next day;
or failing that, a week or two;
they then commence to pummel you –
snapping fingers, hearing clicks?
it’s quackery I say – just tricks.
The one I saw was most sincere,
his diagnosis very clear:
‘ Your bones are really out of whack,
and I would like to see you back;
today was just a routine check
upon your spine, your back and neck;
it really isn’t looking good’…
to me this was as clear as mud:
for if my skeleton were just
on the point of being bust,
how could I, on point of doom,
have walked to his consulting room?
(Written June 2016)
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