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Crohn’s Disease

Charles Michael Craven

another day,
another suffering of stomach pain;
a knife in my belly would offer less pain than this.

the problem is one of timing,
it always comes late at night
or early in the morning
either when I have someone where to be
or have found someone to fuck.

a moldy, stewed, sludge
festers like Hawaiian lava
somewhere in my large intestines.

little midget hands use
my colon
to ice a wedding cake in the toilet
and my invitation was lost in the mail.

I’ve lost 60 pounds,
seen five doctors,
had tubes shoved in every crevice,
but no cure exists.

I’m stuck inside again.

my mind wanders on the commode
as the world keeps moving
out there.

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