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Toenail Fungus

Injustices, victimization, oppression and other yucky events of diverse varieties, are like toe nail fungus: 1. both alarming and embarrassing 2. who knows where it came from 3. we would appreciate it if it would return from wherever to whatever, as long as it's away from me. My kids taught me everything I never wanted to know about the sufferings of injustice, while my husband taught me everything I never wanted to know about the inadequacies of my pathetic attempts at mercy. "What happened to the chicken casserole that was still cooling?!" I used to believe this was a reasonable question that I should rationally answer. "Well, Ms. Fetal Alcohol Daughter decided to eat it without using her hands, because you told her not to touch anything. That's why her face looks like the remnants of baked chicken, mashed potatoes, and I believe the green stuff might be peas from ear to ear and a spot on her forehead and all over her chin, although her hands remain surprisingly pristine." However, over the sometimes tumultuous years of further victimization and mutual oppression, I have learned to hear these questions, about domestic and other political suffering and loss loudly exclaiming injustice, as rhetorical opportunities. "As a kindness to you I choose to pretend that was a rhetorical question. Because we seldom really want to know from whence comes toenail fungus, or any other of the diverse angry adolescent behaviors causing cosmic dissonance and climatic behavioral disorders as they are doing their best with defiant-compliance." I don't know, it just feels kinder to say it, and see self-neglect of wise choices, this way. Makes me feel a little more like WildYeast absorbing nutritious toenail fungus. 1. Embarrassed and Terrified by my own failures to actively love healthy choices, all the time, with every co-fungus I meet. in each moment of oppositionally defiant dialectical opportunity for redirection through basic regenerative/degenerative, co-arising MidWay=TippingPoint=Yang/Yin wu-wei reiterative dipolar attendance to co-empathic bilateral balance. 2. Not really wanting to spend a lot of time thinking about my own climatic interior and exterior landscape history; health-and-safety issues of self-and-other neglect. 3. Feeling like we already nondually co-arise in this permaculturally regenerative, health-revolving repurposing normative-natural value, merit, worth, dignity, honor, purpose, ecotherapy, coempathic ToeNail Fungus DeComposition, as we cogravitate back where EcoParasitic Elders were comin' from: your wealth evolves from where you ecologically invest your feet, avoid infestation, keep them movin' across healthy soil in clean water breathin' fresh breezes. Wild Yeast breathing in ecosystemic nutrients breathing out toenail fungus. .

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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