Poetry Is Like Farting in Public
Because bodies make a fart joke of social hierarchy
etiquette used to dictate that when someone
passed gas at, e.g., a dinner party
the polite thing to do was to pretend
the fart never happened
I don’t know if this still holds true
because I, too, hold in my farts
but I have let it slip
that I write poetry
and people are always very polite about it
So, I do know that
bodies must be beautiful
and words must be dutiful
Other works by Chris Gaither...
“Einstein’s theory of gravity seems to predict that time itself is destroyed at the center of the hole: time comes to an abrupt end there. For this reason, a black hole is sometimes described as the ‘reverse of creation.’”
In spacetime, the fourth dimension… Enabled the fourth estate to Document all the comings and going… But technology has made everything… So, those days are long gone
