Why Try Chiropractic?

‘Twas a dangerous cliff as they freely confessed,
Though to walk near its crest was so pleasant.
But over its edge had slipped a Duke,
And it had fooled many a peasant.

The people said something would have to be done,
But their projects did not at all tally.
Some said “Put a fence around the edge of the cliff”,
Others, “An ambulance down in the valley.”

The lament of the crowd was profound and loud,
As their hearts overflowed with pity.
But the ambulance carried the cry of the day,
As it spread to the neighbouring cities.

So a collection was made to accumulate aid,
And dwellers in highway and valley
Gave dollars and cents not to furnish a fence,
But an ambulance down in the valley.

“For the cliff is all right if you’re careful”, they said,
“And if folks ever slip and are falling:
It’s not the slipping and falling that hurts them so much,
As the shock down below when they’re stopping.”

And so for years as these mishaps occurred
Quick forth would the rescuers sally
To pick up the victims who fell from the cliff
With an ambulance down in the valley.

Said one in his plea “It’s a marvel to me
That you’d give so much greater attention
To repairing results than to curing the cause,
Why, you’d much better aim at prevention.”

For the mischief, of course, should be stopped at its source;
Come, friends and neighbours, let us rally.
It makes far better sense to rely on a fence,
Than an ambulance down in the valley.

“He’s wrong in his head”, the majority said,
“He would end all our earnest endeavours.
He’s the kind of a man that would shirk his responsible work,
But we will support it forever.”

“Aren’t we picking up all just as fast as they fall,
And giving them care liberally?
Why, a superfluous fence is of no consequence,
If the ambulance works in the valley.”