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An Octogram

A chapter in the book Family

Knee Replacement

by Treischel



The doctors have performed their job,
A brand new knee,
To quell the aching, grinding throb
There used to be.
They pierced the skin, exposed the bone,
Retracted nerves and muscle tone,
Then engineered through surgery
A brand new knee.

Replaced the bone with stainless steel
Quite handily.
Now cartilage is nylon wheel
For sliding free.
It's guaranteed to last for years,
With no more pain or anguished tears.
Our prayers became reality,
A brand new knee.







My wife, Karen, underwent a full knee replacement on November 11, 2015. Everything went well. This type of operation is amazing. They cut a long incision, retract the muscle,nerves, and ligaments, then cut and shape the bones to take stainless steel caps with nylon replacing cartilage. The image above shows a diagram of it. It is painful, with several weeks of recovery, but hopefully, it will be worth it.

This poem is an Octogram.
The Octogram is a style of poetry invented by Fanstorian Sally Yocom (S.Yocom). It consists of two stanzas of eight lines each, with a very specific syllable count and rhyme scheme.

Syllable count is: 84848884, repeat on second stanza.

Rhyme scheme: aBabccbB ababddbB, where B repeats same text. No more than 16 lines. Strict iambic meter on all lines.

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