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gerund und gerund

a great absurdity of life
   comes in no lesser
form than...
         as it comes...
             when using
a knife and fork...
to eat a chicken thigh...
or a chicken drum-stick...
without
the joy of using the hands...
 
of the two households...
where a chicken was eaten
with a knife and fork...
and where a chicken was
eaten with bare hands...
profanity: when enough
meat remains on the bone
that a dog will gladly bite...
 
otherwise a household...
where even the ends of the bones
are bitten off for the livery
marrow...
or that grand delicacy of
a chicken's neck: you cannot find
more tender meat anywhere:
even if it is poached...
               esp. if it is poached...
 
    and sometimes a noun
is used as a verb...
 to chicken out...
                  
no alternatives:
but a rephrasing... of...
comfortably numb can
become: comforted by numbness -
comforted by a numbing...
          -ing: herr gerund!
                         alternatively:
the chicken story...
 
apathy: is it truly to be devoid
of all pathology?
or... quiet simply:
to sweep under the rug...
i.e. that there are too many
pathologies to mind...
that apathy is  
              a σ of pathology?
Written by MatthewConrad (bilingual-zoid)
Published | Edited 29th May 2020
Author's Note
sorry... this poetry website would be more fun... if... category / themes: category - subcategory / comments allowed were... optional... and not mandatory... just saying... #thisispointless...
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