Are You Asking or Telling?

I’ll decide soon maybe so take all of me take

Me by my bad elbow not the good one but

The one that hasn’t worked since my thirteenth

Summer when my brother’s knee dislocated it

As we fought in the sand pile by the 500-gallon

Propane tank Dad got filled every six months or 
So which was about how long it took the doctor 
Who never looked at the x-rays finally to admit 
It wasn’t a pulled tendon and by then that pig-
Headed joint of mine just wouldn’t go back

Even after another doctor yanked and yanked

And yanked until he broke it and stuck a pin in it

So it would stay together and I sported a cast
For a year O take me by my bad elbow my dear