When you amputate the leg
do me a favor
and save the bits.
I’d like to fry up tiny segments
and serve them to friends
over the holidays.

Plus
there might be research to be done
in the state of my disease that might help others
so let’s give some to Science
which no, doubt,
will have much to say
about the nature of my knees.

I would hope to get some sketches
of the unattached appendage
and possibly get part of its length
bathed in bronze
so the leg can stay with us forever
as legs have been sometimes known to do.

Alternately
you could save the leg,
avoiding any amputations at all.
Just spitballing here.
Whatever works best for you.