The Raw Anatomy of What's Disgusting
by Apple (Member) - published: July 6, 2012
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A stoma and a scar
like the Grand Canyon
form a conspiracy
against my body.
The stoma--raw and
fleshy--looks like a red
and beefy barnacle on
my side that constantly
oozes and drains feces
and waste like an
overflowing, backyard
cesspool. It sickens me.

Near the red and moist
stoma lies a huge,
crooked scar on my
stomach and abdomen.
It is like the Grand
Canyon of Arizona--an
immense displacement
of the local landscape,
only instead of earth
and rock and soil it is
my skin and muscle
and tissue that has been
gouged away. Like my
stoma, it sickens me as
well. Because of them
both, my body now
feels to me like the
raw anatomy of what's
disgusting.

------
"Good verse, like art, is difficult."

--ngoc m. nguyen, aka "poembender"

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The following comments are for "The Raw Anatomy of What's Disgusting"
by Apple

anatomy of gross
I liked the other colostomy poem better.

Maybe because of the desk, and the night, informing the poem as well...richer texture.

Maybe one day you won't be this disgusted with your colostomy.

( Posted by: windchime [Member] On: July 7, 2012 )

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