Seductive Oddities

Funny how
A water damaged page
Starch brown makes the sound
Of rain percussion heavy on a tin roof
Funny how we don’t eat
Pretty fish funny how we
Call them clowns and
Angels too, keep them in a circus
Tank our
Screwed up faces
Jackhammering fingers on the glass
Feeding them green and orange flakes of
God knows what
Funny how fungus grows
Pink
In the shower even though the shampoo’s blue
How humble mushroom bulbs are all connected underground
in systems so advanced that it takes years
To form to be
Stomp-thromped
by a little girls untied pink high tops
the color of her gummy
Smile funny
How she likes the way they feel all
Flattened under toes under thin
Rubber soles funny adolescent teeth jutting
sideways freshly torn, her
Lips have to swell to catch up to those chompers
Funny
How saliva forms
and spurts involuntarily when I
See a bag of big league chew or try to
Resist the potent pull of
Salt and vinegar
Funny how my brain corresponds being cozy with
The bulbous mushroom bulge of your hairless
Squareless belly
soft as flannel sheets and just as warm, your
trim Testicles
resting lightly In the lines of my palm flesh
Sleeping, cradling flesh after
The punctuated sigh and the reciprocal
Release.