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Take Life By The Nut-Sack

Jason A Wilkinson

And run with it until the putrefied bits slip
through your fingers
causing infections to spread
like gossip over them
staining your clothes

Run with it until it dries in your hands
though it were no more than powder
and the hair upon that scrotum
has desiccated beyond recognition

Until you no more notice the stench of it
than that of a dead fly
entombed beneath the azaleas
and pedestrians are obliged to wear protective gear
lest you should contaminate them unawares

Run with the precious nickel bag
twisting every last demand from its host
-bury your nails in supple flesh
if only to exact more and more

Take Life by the nut-sack and wear it on a chain
next to the promise rings and that fake shark tooth
your uncle Dougie swore came from ‘a big one’
he caught off the coast of Jamaica last spring

Take Life by the nut-sack and treat it like a prostitute
dragging it through the streets
at the ends of frayed tethers

Use its head for a battering ram
against hard-to-open doors

Take Life by the nut-sack without compunction
or delusion
or the occasional hangover

Take Life by the nuts
and unto those testes
do what Conscience dictates
must be inflicted upon no other.

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