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Colon Wanted

by Charles Michael Craven

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The Colonoscopy Blues

Charles Michael Craven

no matter what I do:
beer until 4 a.m.
fast food late at night
cheesecake for breakfast
no exercise.

the weight of illness will not come back.

still
six foot
138 pounds (141 at night)

friends
family
and state officials
think it’s the drugs
and I wish
it was.

if it were the dope
I could stop (maybe)
and fix the problem (maybe)
as it is
the chronic nature of my condition
keeps the forecast
weak
dehydrated
and waiting for a morning
without the gnomes ringing out my colon.



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