Dr. Donohue

If you can't believe Dr. Donohue
in his syndicated column
when he addresses matters medical,
then "whom," as my mother
would have said, "can you believe?"

Fair enough, I thought.
And so when recently the doctor told
a reader not to worry
even though her "stools float,"
I took comfort.

Apparently, she had read somewhere
that floating stools are symptomatic
of a strange condition often dangerous.
I hope Dr. Donohue is right
because if he's not I've got a problem.

Not all my stools float, but the lunkers do.
And what if on a given day a lunker leaps
like a dolphin capering in a Florida bay
and crashes against my bathroom ceiling?
What do I do then, Doc, duck?

Donal Mahoney

Archived 07/11/2011