Re “I Think I Shall Never See…Changes on Motor Avenue?”

Sometime ago I wrote about my knees with reference to Joyce Kilmer's poem, Trees.
 
It also is a reminder that the tree roots can cause injuries that may require knee surgery and/or replacements…!

Knees
By Janet Hoult
(with apologies to Joyce Kilmer)
 
I think that I shall never see
a replacement lovely as a knee
 
A knee whose moving parts are worn
whose person has become forlorn
 
who cannot walk, or jump, or play
or even kneel in church to pray.
 
A knee that climbs the stairs all day
with pains at each step of the way
 
It needs to be replaced, you see
My faithful, loyal worn out knee
 
Now we can do it at a premium
By using cobalt or titanium.
 
And then, I’ll walk and climb again
Without the pains in knees and shin
 
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God…the doctor…the manufacturer of the steel replacement…
can make a knee.

Dr. Hoult, poetess laureate of Culver City, may be contacted at HOULTight@aol.com