He sees at last infirmity is a trick.
something achieved with string,
a game played best on the floor—
puzzle, wish, fear, and ache
are what a magician is for.
Its raining as always
but he has a stick
and he waves it at the orient wind.
**
“Well, the lamb must face the lion,” he says, entering the halls of medicine. Sometimes he thinks of doctors as howler monkeys. Sometimes he sees them as fish swimming in schools. “Doctors,” he thinks, “think their job is to defeat grief, poor dears.” They think a crippled man or woman can only be (at best) a victim reconciled. He wonders what Doc X was like as a child.
Planet of the Blind 