HighTech OBGYN

Ishii-san : OBGYN Sanno Medical Plaza


March 15, 2006

I had just had the most outrageous OBGYN experience
When I got home, I asked my partner at the time,
"you wanna make a baby?"

The gynecologist was a young guy. Early 50s.
Great english for a Japanese person.
Tells me he's part Italian.
I don't believe him.

He has me sit in this great big comfy pink chair.

No stir-ups!
Some kind of curtain is pulled in place
in front of my lower extremities.
I don't see myself but I can see him
sitting on his stool in front of me.

If you want, you can draw a curtain in front of your face
so you don't even have to see him working on you.
The curtain amuses him, which would you prefer?
He pulls the curtain to an fro.
He suggests leaving it open.

He has to place those cold metal instruments in order
to get a pap. Explains everything so nothing comes as
a surprise. Then, for the ovaries . . . He doesn't
go sticking his whole hand up inside you to feel them
. . .

He places a wand inside you . . .

It doesn't go in very far at all.
You see it ALL on the computer monitor.
He explains, pointing here and there,
the ovaries, the eggs, the cervix, the wall of the
uterus,
the endometry stuff that's getting ready to shed.
He prints out some pics.

We sit, back at his desk, again.
He explains the pictures . . . the wall of the cervix,
the eggs, etc.

He said I have insides like a 21 year old,
5 eggs are getting ready for next month.
One big one ready to release this month . . .
He said I can have more babies . . .

Would you like to have more babies? He asks.
For a moment, I wonder, "You willing?"
I tell him, 'I'd need a a wealthy guy'
He doesn't make any offers.

He sends me home with a set of pics -
my future babies . . .
Like a proud mom to be,
I want to show these sonogram pictures to everyone

A Lament for Kichijoji

Late December 2006

Lament: cry for, bemoun, mourning for, wailing


lamenting for my kichijoji how i miss you kichijoji
the bike path along your river bank
past the small city of mitakadai
where i have enjoyed cherry blossoms overhead
carps and the occassional heron
lamenting for my home away from home
how i miss you, my kichijoji