Maveric
Maveric - meaning Summary
Absurd Warning About Doctors
A comic, macabre cautionary tale about a man named Maveric whose mysterious rumbling and smoke-like symptoms prompt an inept doctor to diagnose an "Asiatic flu" and perform absurd, violent treatment. The poem satirizes medical authority through slapstick exaggeration, bodily grotesquery and a bleak punchline: the patient is ruined and readers are warned to mistrust doctors. Its tone mixes nursery-rhyme rhythm with dark humour.
Read Complete AnalysesMaveric Prowles Had Rumbling Bowles That thundered in the night. It shook the bedrooms all around And gave the folks a fright. The doctor called; He was appalled When through his stethoscope He heard the sound of a baying hound, And the acrid smell of smoke. Was there a cure? 'The higher the fewer' The learned doctor said, Then turned poor Maveric inside out And stood him on his head. 'Just as I thought You've been and caught An Asiatic flu - You musn't go near dogs I fear Unless they come near you.' Poor Maveric cried. He went cross-eyed, His legs went green and blue. The doctor hit him with a club And charged him one and two. And so my friend This is the end, A warning to the few: Stay clear of doctors to the end Or they'll get rid of you.
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