How many fingers?

This is probably not going to seem odd to people who have made the run of medical specialists.  My left eye is still blurry, but it does seem to be improving on its own.  Hurray!  How many fingers has become a family joke.  Jeff and I do imitations of the eye specialists.  There is an Emergency Room version, an ophthalmologist version, a retina specialist version, and the neuro-ophthalmologist version (almost as hard to spell as Episcopalian).  Humor definitely helps.

I have now seen the range

Of eye doctors.

Each of them knows

My blurred vision is not

In their area.

They know

It probably should have been found

By the doctor

Before them.

Each of them sports a different version

Of how many fingers do you see?

Some use one or two fingers.

One guy (I swear)

Used one finger

And a fist.

How many fingers in a fist?

Four and a thumb?

Five?

Some do it slow.

Some flash like lightning.

How many fingers?

I wonder if each specialty

Has a version they*re taught.

The eye guys need more ways

To distinguish themselves.

One finger or two?