• I dare to say that I’m proud of my heritage;
    of the drugs vainly stated in a vein cut
    down to the most mediocre membrane.
    The called-upon chemicals of my ancestors
    rage through my medium, and I am like them.

    Like monkeys on mescaline.
    Apes on Amphetamine.
    Oxy-cotton Orangutans.

    Yes, my arms are as lanky as a loose laxative lashing.
    All the more able to wipe my bum with tissue. Or membrane.
    Or all the powder that hasn’t been snorted into a vein.
    Or nose. Or maybe “insane” is the sane word here.

    Why?

    Because I am as vicious as I am vivacious
    and are curious as I am vicarious
    in the teeth.

    And they have all fallen out; me being an old man
    who chronically takes an un-chewable ecstasy.