When medical jargon scares me, I like to drain it of its power by making it strange, deranging it. I scramble the letters and re-imagine it in whimsical ways.
O S T E O P H Y T E (bone spur)
yo, the poets
hot eye post
oh, toes type?
set too hype
hot pot eyes
O testy hope!
M R I (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
Musty Rusty Incubators
Myopic Readers Irritate
Miniature Rhinos Incite
Monster Roosters Incant
Mutant Rats Infiltrate
Moody Radicals Impinge
R I C E (rest ice compression elevation)
red indigo copper ecru
ribbon ink carbon electromechanical
rancid icky curdled eggs
Rosie is currently elated
rapture is coming early
random isotopes create elements
Rhode Island can’t even
P A T E L L O F E M O R A L G R O O V E
the Melt A Paler Foot groove
the Alter All of Poem groove
the Ol’ Temporal Leaf groove
the O Moral Leap Felt! groove
the A Feral Poem Toll groove
Free I T (iliotibial) Band name
the Isosceles Triangles
Imperious Tina and the Intolerable Treaties
Insatiable Teresa and the Intimate Tulips
the Intrepid Toddlers
the Irritable Tigers
Intelligent Tom and the Incubating Theories
the Iambic Torsos
the Important Tubas
the Inelegant Toadstools
the Infringing Tableaus