What You Don't See Is Not Necessarily Not There
I
Take out the caked grimy faucet plug
Let those unseen crawlies dive and duck
under the rust-ridden slime
stuck to phlegm and saliva globs
dried blood and flaky semen
shot through with crap
The seen and the unseeable
The sane and the goneforsaken
This glob of virus a syruppy eggdash
got rid of in a hurry
close your thoughts
to the raw genital-vaginal whiff of public lavatories
the brothel closets' stained sticky sheets
the stink and the dirt and the stinging hell
that comes from under
pipes
tanks
drains
sewers
rivers
all stuffed with fizzing
fuming water
cloacal wind
and the aftershave lotion
Nothing that wouldn't burn forever
when we all disappear
II
Even if you slow your rhythm down to a stilled beat
at rest
haven't you heard your blood
coursing through in a reckless lickety-split
past the pinned ear in the pillow
The silence of the hour
outside
your pulse down to a twenty-five or thirty
listless
cutaway from the clatterbanging engine within
gushing
whistling
throttling
wheezing
jerking
cartwheeling
shunting
beating a frenzied time
racing round and round in a cataclysmic din
Whoever jams it all from the eye
hears its thunderous roar in the cells
The cells that slither
creep
and ooze
acidic enzymes
down the washes of stuffed putrefying canals
This the great manufacturer
of what oozes in lethean sewers
III
cell into cells
in the coursing blood
the car jams
the myriad alleyway mazes of city cells
heartless
traffic-lights
valves that stop
letpass
white-red corpuscles
In the city's centre is the heartless pulsing leviathan
and through the aorta highway
everybody alights on a wc cuvette
and back
through the ventricles
the carnival parade of
scabies
herpes
spittle and slime
Die City
Die like bodies
and empires
disease-clogged sewers
funding plagues
pandemics
What is left from afar
is a clouded-over scorched patch
fossilised cellular forms under the microscope
Who cares after a thousand billion years
What went on during a trillion light years
ago
I care You care We care
Do All ALL care
poem by T. Wignesan
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