here;'s my edit you requested xxx
sorry to have been so long

although he was seriously ill
the surgeon declined
to operate

but he adamantly insisted
I'm paying, he snarled...
who knows
when the dangling hour...
will come

post operation
he lay horizontal
while the world rotated him a time
around the sun

then
sooner than expected
standing
… walking...

the young surgeon died
patient survived…
for over two decades
thereafter...

one’s mind has power
foreign to what is rational

love judy
xxx