The Ulna, Radius and Hand - script

Extending reliably from elbow to wrist,
the sometimes "dull" ulna, she perfectly fits.
Even still, exciting things happen from tip to tip.

With the spanish cheer "olé!" and a children's drawing tool, "ole!"
The top olecranon process like the crest and back of a wave
Creates the space where the surfers, saying "trochlear dude" and "totally notchly", misbehave

If they slip and fall, it will not be so rad,
oh for this they must watch:
they will find themselves in the radial notch.

Still, better than being on the below the water, no Corona in sight, they will be annoyed to be on the coronoid process.

Travel the length of the bone, there's not much of note
until the surfers reach their stylin' pointed styloid home.

The ulna alone may slightly twist,
but not nearly as much as her partner in crime, shady-radius.

Just like humans, with noggin and "heck!"
the radius too, starts with a head and neck.
Radius surfers shouting across the IOM,
"that's the interosseous membrane, dude"
exclaiming the "tubular" radial tuberosity
all the way to these radius radical surfer's equally stylin' styloid process

Here is where the tricky part comes, for the eight bones in the heel of the palm
are many and tiny, and cause many qualms
let's start near the pinky and move toward the thumb, that's metacarpal number 5 all the way to 1
look at your right palm, the wrinkles and lines worn
and furthest carpal to the left is the left-out pisi-form
pissed and tiffed by its curious neighbor,
pisiform lives beside three spanish "whats?" :
tri- "que"-tral ponders the strange carpal fate
moving right ward, looking toward the moon, the center carpal, shines out, central lunate,
beside the full moon, music from jamaica rings out,
the "ska"- playing "scaphoid" bone articulates
finally, to finish our first row of 5,
the entertaining trapeze-ing trapezium from the thumb down it glides

now up toward the metacarpals, three more tiny bones linger,
trapezium's shape-friend trapezoid patiently waits for the ska music below to taper,
just so to hear the commands from the captain at his left,
the captain doles out instructions to the rest of the party,
captain capitate lives happily under metacarpal 3.
the parade it must end, once and for all, the final bone's no meat-head, don't let his name mislead ya yet
the hamate, slides gracefully between triquetral and capitate.

and now we sound off, once more for review
pisiform, triquetral, and lunate too
scaphoid and trapezium, trapezoid, capitate
and our lastly Christmas-time friend hamate.

now you know all the carpals, their place and their names
moving on up is much easier now, to finish our game
there are metacarpals thumb one out to five, proximal phalanges, middle, and distal guys!