Yesterday I went to visit two for Dr. Mitchell
chiropractor functional medicine practitioner heebeejeebee body worker
magic is in our bodies he knows that is true
would any medicine be called unfunctional we find
odd names for things his office underneath a building on west
57th street almost by the river my friend Liz described him
and I went for several reasons one being a guinea pig for Bruce
Dr. M. is not a chatterer but he does talk about what he’s doing and I can’t
follow him my mind wanders when he talked about things like Vitamin K
I think of Special K and the big red letter but I too feel compelled to ask the usual things Is
That A Picture of Your Sons and he answers Yes A Long Time Ago
one’s in construction one works for ESPN he doesn’t much want
to talk about his sons wants to tell me that I will hold something in my right hand
and he will put his fingers on my left temple I like him and feel somehow
He Knows What He’s Doing and before I leave, maybe because he is an intuitive healer
he feels he has to Tell Me Something so he says that he grew up
in Jersey City and the Italian kids were rough and beat up the Irish kids he hasn’t been
back and not only that he doesn’t want to go back either. And although I dislike people
who say Oh, only Oh when I’m telling them something I say Oh to Dr. Mitchell
and he smiles as if to say OK we can continue now and he puts his fingers on my
right temple and I resume thinking of Special K.
