Nostril damn messA Poem by Matthew Scott Harrisunsure if this scrivener the sole riders of the storm, who kept spoilt food in their desk or locker, but nonetheless unlikely any reader this bozo stashed an egg most of the academic year -The putrid, malodorous and fowl nauseating smell
can still be conjured nearly fifty years later wracked I never
forget ineradicable tangy, sulfurous
acrid odor rankled olfaction tract entire
sinus cavity, yet amazingly enough isolate
this offal nose not so gay circumstance, when aye kept sacked a raw
egg - perhaps intended and/or meant
for significant assignment - which found me quacked up
beyond all recognition - unsure if long over due project
by this king of procrastination - which packed in paper
bag bore putrid putsch punch possibly and probably
packing panache polluting air supply
while this mute student lacked courage
to speak up while in second, third, four, fifth,
or sixth grade, which fetid fowl fumes possibly hi-jacked learning
> fostering near flunking, < which acuity co-opted
witnessed yoked and hacked learning
patiently taught by Mrs. Rittenhouse,
Mrs. Wells, Mr. Stout, Mrs. Shaner or Miss Rinderle
respectively, and naturally the classmates cracked up, and
sought means and ways to stymie
this shy boy to achieve academic success bracketed what appeared
asthma constant struggle to catch breath -
as if a heavy smoker, this warrant no act. - - - - -
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- - - Tis time
for poetic curtain call to get at
meat and potatoes of this fall tee
winter, spring and some er: how
unintended science project did install itself
sprung from spoilage ova raw egg
buried in the bowels sans me messy kraal which
desk presented a topface linkedin
entire contraption, deep within bowl of assigned seat, this mal odor us
issued every instance hinged surface
raised arose pestilential soundcloud strong enough
to lyft a hefty man to the moon, per such offal inducing
stern rebuke from voices crowdsource sing
within celestial sphere belonging to saint peter or Paul telling
- in shouting biblical verse -
to get maintenance man to fix supposed malfunctioning toilet stall since
unbeknownst to anybody but myself,
rivaled a Roman vomitorium and pitted
as casus
belli necessitating one to trawl amidst
shutterfly, SnapChat and springme morass of disarray -
evidenced by basin amidst my own bric a brac wall - - - - -
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- - - finds me
zeroing toward crux
and source of sordid smell recalled
by this now middle aged man -
whose presence thru nearly every grade I tell found me
immovable as Stonewall Jackson,
who flinched not, even if another student or teacher did yell froze Zen
statue like a red mar bull mentally conducting
orchestrated explanation - harmonic converging with George Szell though
admission of keeping avast blob of eye stinging,
deplorable basked kit petrifaction from hell incubated
in bath of outdated, crumbled failed test papers
(MARKED::RETURN AT ONCE), the gross, grisly glop would fell even the
mightiest giants, or invoke immediate revulsion
and slay dainty appetite for carnivorous consumption ova Cain Abel!
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Added on December 17, 2016 Last Updated on December 17, 2016 Tags: disgusting, egg, fowl, gross, hack AuthorMatthew Scott Harrisbryn mawr, PAAbouthomage to simple pleasures hie try to ace like health of body, mind n spirit at base within this fit corporeal of mine a chase ensures 2 nab ideas being that doth encase in tandem with unspoilt te.. more..Writing
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