Chiropractors Poem by John Carter Brown

What do chiropractors do
when they chiropract on you?
my experience has been,
they must think that we are green:

First they lay you on your back,
then proceed with an attack
upon your joints and vertebrae,
saying you'll be fine next day;

or failing that, a week or two;
they then commence to pummel you -
snapping fingers, hearing clicks?
it's quackery I say - just tricks.

The one I saw was most sincere,
his diagnosis very clear:
' Your bones are really out of whack,
and I would like to see you back;

today was just a routine check
upon your spine, your back and neck;
it really isn't looking good'...
to me this was as clear as mud:

for if my skeleton were just
on the point of being bust,
how could I, on point of doom,
have walked to his consulting room?

(Written June 2016)