Pucker... by Rita Parrish

YellowYellow Posts: 699
edited February 2004 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
my love is deep and penetrating, subterranean
large, thick, slow, deliberate, vulgar, low, archetypical,
animalistic
ripe for splitting opne, to be savored, enjoyed
I am a pomegranate

and you
you are everything that ever was
and everything that ever shall be
i could pray to you
and, so it begins

you take me in your arms and fold me like a fan
you lead me about the room
my body is pliant, supple
your hands stretch wide across my belly, self-assured

even your fingers are confident

we are groveling
grinding
sinking deeper into it
slathering each other with it

and, then i feel it

it is traveling through my bowels
like a vengeful eggplant on fire
violently pushing and gurgling its way through my lower
intestine
mocking my sensuality

for a moment i am shaken

how can this be? i was so careful at dinner
oh god, the cauliflower
why? on this day of all days
the day i wear the crown of woman

i travel through time
suddenly i am 9 years old, in sister mercede's 4th grade class
and christi ramalo, wiht her ample bosom and hairy upper lip
tells me i'm not cool enough to be in the 7-Up club
and all my mother can say is
"honey, sometimes, life just isn't fair"

for a moment i fantasize
just letting it rip
will you liken me to some winesome peasant?
will you love the honesty of it?

maybe you'll think i'm earthy

next, i imagine standing up
clutching the bedpost
and proudly declaring
"It is I, Flatula!"

Would that frighten you, my love?

my muscles tighten
and i begin to pray
sweet baby jesus
let your light shine through me and
neutralize this demon squash-like gas.

i feel an enormous thrust. is is over?
you cover me with kisses and tenderly pat my thigh
i tense up and hope for a miracle
i whisper, sweet dreams, my love
barely able to contain the steaming monster inside me

you begin to snore

i press myself against the wall
adhering my buttocks firmly to it
and say twenty seven
hail marys

i relax for one tiny moment and it moves
explodes
and i am thrown from the bed
dear god help me!

a loose chunk of plaster breaks form the ceiling
and flies through the air
i try to throw myself in front of it
i try to cheat fate

but it is too late
too late, my love
the plaster chunk delivers
a cruel but swift death

i cradle your dented head in my arms and i weep

i weep for the cruelty of fate
the loss of true love
and my lack of muscle control

i blame myself
It's all yellow.


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