You Never Know

Just when he was sure he knew what had transpired
(his life expired), he acquired
an extra set of eyes, and nose, and full-lipped mouth
expanding south
from chest to groin,
which grew to spread along each loin

the tufts of an impressive pubic beard.
True, he found this weird.
And yes, peculiar that his head
and body sprouted hair which flamed a startling orange-red –
and that he sat upon a pink-ringed yellow pillow levitating –
which, beneath him, seemed to be disintegrating.

But what most struck him strange
was that he’d somehow found a range
of movement, here, sufficient to attain
the sitting posture of a lotus – without pain!
He never dreamed he’d navigate so large a hurdle.
As far as he could recollect, he used to be a turtle.





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