Premier Ford
may be immortalized
with a monument
built of flexible, six-feet long tube,
bearing a tiny camera
at its tip.
In memory of his willingness
to stop funding sedation
during colonoscopy.
At the base,
high-definition LED monitors
would transmit live streams
from area hospitals
as the invasive probes
push their way
up and away.
Visitors would enjoy a snapshot
into the mind of a leader
who could see a little further.
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)
