Medical Ethics

In the occupied West Bank 
two doctors enter a prison:
 

one the jailer, one the jailed. 
The jailer walks in. His colleague
 

from Gaza—an open truck delivers him, 
blindfolded and shackled. Both
 

have trained teams of interns. 
Both overseen countless surgeries
 

performed without anesthetic— 
one by choice, one of necessity.
 

Over four months, the one prescribes 
the other’s torture, each dosage fine-tuned.
 

Two doctors enter a prison. One 
returns home to family. But
 

the other—no. Even his corpse 
deemed a danger.