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Cardiac Arrested
written by Orelinde05:43 AM 1/24/05Like Salsa Doritos
and mini Snickers bars
let me soak up your adipose.
I am chafed but perhaps
poking that infantile skull
of yours would make me feel
Better.
While nuclei divide
and new tissue is formed,
my phalanges ball and work
against you, down to the bone.
Studying me, studying you
I find we're only different
where hips are concerned,
and mine aren't, very.
Like ligaments -
Bone to bone
And tendons -
Muscle to bone
We are heart to heart
(or so we pretend).
My true ribs crack
and rough CPR
punctures a lung.
But my xiphoid process
can repair - it's only cartilage. Ribs
rebuild articulating with vertebrae and,
glide smoothly allowing lungs to breathe easy.
If my insides can,
perhaps my mind can too. |
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Author's footnotes and comments on this Poem:
Yep I'm in Anatomy. Just to let some of you know what you're reading "adipose" is (gah I can't remember exactly right now) fat cells, I do believe. Here I used the word "adipose" because adipose = fat = carbos = bad for you = metaphore for lies.
I wrote this poem because I was very very very angry with someone, and it caused me to write some very bad cliched poetry, but I deleted those poems and took my anger and turned it into this.
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