PREFACE
Years ago I met Dr. Shang in front of Zabars
he had a massage chair I sat right down
Dr. Shang gave me the best massage ever
right there in front of Zabars and he said
he was a doctor in China director of a hospital
came to New York to give his family better chances
and a friend told him he’d get many customers
if he stood in front of Zabars and he did. We
became friends and when he brought his wife
and daughters to New York everyone was a doctor
they all came to dinner and we saw them often
and one day every single one of them back to China.
I never found out why.
NOW
Annie’s hairdresser Irene went to a Chinese acupuncturist
who cured her of her urinary tract infections.
I don’t have urinary tract infections but I wanted
a Chinese doctor so two days ago I had an appointment
with Ming Weng whose sign says MD (in China).
She gave me a check up (tongue pulse back) and said
she was a cardiologist in China so she’d
check my heart out too.
I will go back next week and when I was leaving
by way of conversation she said: you might want
to know my husband is Jewish. Yes I do, I said.