Surgeons must be very careful
~Emily Dickinson
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the Culprit – Life!
I’ve read this short poem over and over, and am still struggling to make sense of it. Surgeons have to be careful because what’s at fault is life itself? Maybe she means that life is imperfect, that we only get sick and injured, need mending and healing, because we are alive? Surgeons have to be careful not to kill people, because life itself is what’s to blame for all our ailments? I think that’s it…..what do you think?
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