Climbing Achilles Heels There's One Thing On My Mind -Legendary Treasures Of The Body To Find! 1 Of 2 Poem by Frank Yue

A SURREAL ANATOMICAL ODYSSEY: 1 of 2...
- by Frank C Yue


A lighthearted Play on Words

about BODY PARTS and more...



Climbing ACHILLES HEELS there's one thing
on MY MIND -

Legendary treasures of THE BODY to find!

Lo, and behold! What emerald LEAVES OF
THE LUNG

Are growing with such fragrance and beauty
unsung?



The lone CALF IN MY LEG lows against the

graying sky

As thousands of buffalo thunder and rush me

by.

Stalked by hunger I feast gladly on THE
FEET'S SOLES,

My only ADAM'S APPLE and CORNS ON

THE TOES.



Hush... Listen, listen! From a distance can you
hear

The natives beating the throbbing DRUMS OF

THE EAR?

What studious, polished, ALL-ROUND

PUPILS reside

In the shuttered twin dormitories of THE

EYE?



Ambushed by the elusive CROOK IN THE

ELBOW,

I swiftly turn and fell him with blow after blow.

Exhausted, I loosely hang my poor BURNING
HEAD

In the cool, soothing shade of THE PALM OF

MY HAND.



Bored, I kick and kick THE BALL OF MY

FOOT around,

Play many a 'frisbee' where SPINAL DISCS

ABOUND.

O, the precious jewels of THE CROWN

OF THE HEAD are nowhere to be found!


(2013.10.21)


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"I just barely escape the stealth tiger's sharp claws" (2 of 2) .