Appendix Gone - Gas Huffer

My father once performed an appendectomy at sea

The patient was quite grateful for his medical degree

The surgery was numbered a success

An untried scalpel hand had met the test

The appendix was discarded, for, though well-retrieved

It made a bloody mess

The ship sailed on and left the organ bobbing on the brine

The sharks, they gathered quickly--didn't stop to form a line

The water there went white, and then was still

No sign of life in the ensuing chill

The evidence suggested that the fish, though large

Had swallowed down their fill

The sailor touched his stitches and began to reminisce

He sang a little song, must have went something like this:

Appendix gone

Into the dawn

I won’t be long

Appendix gone