BODVERSATIONS
There is more to ‘body language’ than anyone suspected.
While you control
your cerebrum
rogue body parts
poke your eardrum:
“Look how I make
my curlicue,”
said lock of hair
to purlicue.
“You irritate,”
said vagus nerve,
then jumped cables
to breastbone’s curve.
The os coxae
must stay hearty.
“Walk this way, bones,
time to party!”
Said the penis
to patella,
“Such good cover
…like umbrella!
“Please, no ulnas!
Do not take risks
when lifting pounds,”
say spine and discs.
Said left hallux
to other fumb,
“We’ve shoes for dress —
let’s pity thumb!”
Body parts in
conversations?
Compliments and
accusations!
NOTE: Do you require a little gray-haired anatomy from me to support your kind reading of this poem? If so, the cerebrum contains your consciousness; the purlicue is the flesh between thumb and forefinger; os coxae are hipbones; patella is the knee’s cap; ulna is the forearm bone; hallux is big toe and fumb is also (but ‘fumb’ is just a commonfolk term). Now go forth and listen!
