We’re trying to figure out
what to do with him,
Mengele confided sotto voce.
One bad apple is all it takes.
We have to be vigilant in our profession.

This must be a dream
I thought as I lay dreaming.
Doesn’t he know I’m Jewish?
My wife introduced us,
a surgical meeting
beside the sea.

Just wake up and this guy is toast
I thought.
No more bad apples.