roots

a kidney bean

once became lodged

deep inside

my ear canal

 

and i don’t think

i need to remind you

how a sweet polyp

like that

will sprout roots

among the white axons

grow throughout the squid

and drink in salvation

from the brainpan

 

god knows

i’ve tried what i can

even

turned to the

purgative artillery

strong medicine for sure

but

my throat muscles

only strained and expelled

a bulky stool

so gassy

 

and when

the shaman

sat atop me

with his covey of broken clam shells

scraped the flesh from back of

my neck

wouldn’t you know it

the beast only sneered

from the hole and spat

 

so i guess

i’m resigned now

to co-exist with my friend

and no

as you’ve gathered

it’s not a symbiosis

 

but i’ll get by

Reviews

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

you've a way to flay away the pc prose of modern woes and reimbue it with the gut wrenching tear stained beauty that it IS even in a condition's degenerative dissolution~ you are like the olden wizards of preRome who wandered lands of Dhawos making magik out of pain and suffering and breathing stunning revelatory gem drops into the wrenching fields of mortality~

[.]

thank your lucky stars it wasn't a broad bean..then you would have been in trouble :)

[asdarkeyesclose]

'the beast only sneered
from the hole and spat'

i took this to mean life is not always the way that you want it- the kidney bean an image of all those things that get in the way. a truly hideous thought!

[Nobody.]

:) lol. sounds painful.

I'm picturing a thousand ugly realities that this mtaphor might fit. All of them are interesring....as Mr. Ed said: funny and scary all at once. What a lovely mixed drink.

Cheers!

[Seshat Nidaba]

If you would wrote a poem about depression and name various neurotransmitters through-out, do you know how happy you would make me?

As always, I enjoy the gathering sense that science is wanting to burst through the seams of your verse! Even if you just wrote about some bodily processes which perhaps on a friday evening does not afford me the psycho-analysis I might ordinarily be tempted to attempt, good job!

[Ed Hart]

you are hilarious and scary at the same time

[Crowley]

I thinnk it could be a metaphor for so many of those things we put up with in our lioves that are definitely not symbiotic but we can't do all that much about it. Cooly dark and enigmatic, brushes elbows with crazy and shakes hands with outrageous....loved it.

[Jasmine]

I completely agree with Noneofyourbusiness..... your grotesque, gripping imagery expresses a great deal, without me fully understanding it. Which i respect. You are a wonderful poet. You leave things so deeply unwritten, that the poem's meaning unwravels over time.

[Muse]

your words spread like a disease. There's no shrink for you! Just kidding, it's another fabulous dark sadistic write my friend.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Aptly descriptive. This reminds me of any TOOL song I've ever heard. It's disturbing on the surface, but it relates to deeper things if you can get past the disturbia.