EMPTY
Emptiness has a way of spreading
like yellow forest slime mould
seeking more white mould
to slaughter and eat
Inexcorious and inexuberant
it fills your lungs first and
then moves to other organs
kidneys, liver, pancreas, spleen, stomach
and heart. Skin and testes
come last as the colour shows
through, inwards outwards
in slow decay
Can’t get it up
fly the flag of quarantine
face to the mirror
cocaine chapped nostrils
swollen sinuses, yellow slime
of mucous wanting out
to spread again to another organism
of promised greed and effluence
