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"feeling like feces"
Sometime I realize how smart I really am
and
in such a flash of clarity
and intelligence
I realize
how wholly
how truly
I want to be
DUMB
how I want to be blind to truth
how I want to be deaf to reason
how I wish that my mouth was capable of stupidity
and mindless
words.
how I dream,
late at night,
that when I see
--SH*T--
I am not compelled
to say
dung biological wastes excretion stool effluvium manure
offal excrement discharge droppings feces excreta
and after a
so-brief life
my eyes grow
dull
my mind
submerges
and tasteless liquids form
once again in my mouth.
[first published in Saskatchewan Writers' Guild, WindScript, Volume 12.]
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