A surgeon dreams of slicing livers.
A dentist dreams of teeth and gums.
Proctologists envision fingers
and thumbs.
The moving deeper and deeper body of eel,
that's what patients of proctologists often feel.
Volodymyr Knyr
2017
Proctologists need to write when
A prescription's called for big ben
But a doctor equipped
With thermometer quipped
An as_hole's walked off with my pen
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