Sunday, March 4, 2012

Day 104: Post-Primate

My sinuses are loud, and -- like a chimp
Exhibit (grinning, screeching, dirty) -- they
Disturb me.  Somewhere in my damaged, limp,
And fading skull-space, "self" gets in the way:
Sub-human and post-primate.  There's a hole
Inside my head, a honeypot for trash,
A cavity half-filled with filthy soul-
Dust interspersed with mucus, blood, and ash.
What a piece of work is man, infinite
In sickened, cavernous unease, so wilted
Beside a sinal sea. The primates sit
Atop Mount Sinus, old-man faces tilted
Towards the void.  The largest screams and flings
His waste: "My verse," he pens; "My voice," he sings.

1 comment:

bysshe said...

Another one from the airplane home. Obviously, still sick, although perhaps not sick as balls...