04-24-2024, 03:17 PM
Hmm....
I've had to handle the bones of many cats
for a class I once took, comparing
the anatomy of various vertebrates,
including our own. Since this was not a medical school,
there were no human specimens
in our collection: we had to use
ourselves for such examples.
I type, for instance, with my phalanges,
my carpals, my metacarpals,
even my radius and ulna, because
the various muscles that compose my hands
extend down to my arms, while I think
using no bones at all: the skull protects the brain
and nothing more.
The number of strays in our campus let
certain rumours spread
but what our professors always said
was that there was a farm upstate
and, to be fair, another department
spent an inordinate chunk of their pay
spaying and neutering the living among us,
albeit because the grounds were quite rural,
just behind our building, others were growing
taro, cabbage, and water spinach.
I've had to handle the bones of many cats
for a class I once took, comparing
the anatomy of various vertebrates,
including our own. Since this was not a medical school,
there were no human specimens
in our collection: we had to use
ourselves for such examples.
I type, for instance, with my phalanges,
my carpals, my metacarpals,
even my radius and ulna, because
the various muscles that compose my hands
extend down to my arms, while I think
using no bones at all: the skull protects the brain
and nothing more.
The number of strays in our campus let
certain rumours spread
but what our professors always said
was that there was a farm upstate
and, to be fair, another department
spent an inordinate chunk of their pay
spaying and neutering the living among us,
albeit because the grounds were quite rural,
just behind our building, others were growing
taro, cabbage, and water spinach.