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Surgeon Simulator By Fly Adams

I’m your online operator.

A ‘surgeon simulator’ if you will.

A single, white-gloved finger

eradicating earthly ills.


Specimens on my wall are tagged

and stuffed behind polished glass

where poised peroxide skeletons

crack cryogenic laughs.


I’m a photogeneticist.

A biographical quack.

An optical proctologist

with an endoscope in the back.


Give me a hand, I’ll give you a scalpel;

though I’ll need you to keep me stable.

There’s nothing a good doctor can’t do

from the comfort of your bedside table.


I’m your digital aggregator

that doesn’t know how many thumbs is correct.

A generalising practitioner

who can’t tell a usual pulse from cardiac arrest.

Your curiosity collector

behind a sign that reads ‘Please, tap the glass.’

Your phoney physician.

A cropper.

A chopper.

In short: I’m a hack.

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