polyester fabrications
- Stubborn as I was I pulled the narrowboat that
- Carried the coal that fueled the smelters
- That drove the industrial revulsion
- Now I tow a party of merrymakers smug in
- Suburban comfort partaking of narrow foods
- Bread sticks, linguini, banana splits
- Wrapped around my belly an umbilical rope
- Channeling the boat's inviting incandescence
- Bringing on a bulimic rush that can't be sated

- Gorged innards can take no more
- The rope edges up my torso to my neck
- Swelling an already swollen head
- Until it arrives at a girth of no return
- Bursting in a shower that catches the
- Narrowboaters by mild surprise
- Scurrying up to collect laundry
- They curse acid rain for soiling
- Sheet-white lives... Burning holes in
- Polyester fabrications
© 2004 Joseph Dias