Hard
& round
& shiny as
a sex toy,
studded collar
biting into
the dirt,
the translucent
hum of
his wings
folded away,
the six-
legged god
plods backwards,
wheeling his
little world
of shit.
Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003.
Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003.
Hard
& round
& shiny as
a sex toy,
studded collar
biting into
the dirt,
the translucent
hum of
his wings
folded away,
the six-
legged god
plods backwards,
wheeling his
little world
of shit.
This poem will be in there, right?
No, Beth and I don’t publish our own stuff. Almost every theme inspires me to write stuff in response to it, though, and why not? It’s a fun way to plug qarrtsiluni here.
Just poking at you, Dave. Love the poem. Laughed out loud.
Nice. I especially like the first 7 lines.
Thanks. Credit of course goes to Sigmund Freud for being the first (?) to draw an analogy between religious fetish (icon, idol) and sex object.
bravo!
Thanks for the memories. Those little shit-rollers used to scuttle all over the sandy ground of the village where I lived in Senegal. I think we called them dung beetles (can’t remember what the Wolof word was for them). Sounds like they are the same thing as scarabs. I also remember seeing these in iconography all over Egypt. Why the hell did they worship those things?
Chris
“In the minds of the Egyptians the efficacy of the amulet was based on the habits of the actual beetle. The Greek writer, Plutarch (ca. AD 40-120), described their asexual perception of the beetle:
“However, in reality the male and female often work together and it is the female which, after dropping her eggs in the ground, covers them in excrement on which the larvae feed. As the soft dung ball is rolled across the ground, dust and sand attached to it so that it became hardened and was sometimes equal in size to the beetle. Without a doubt in the mind of the unknowing Egyptian this was a thought provoking and impressive achievement that imitated the daily appearance of the sun. This observation prompted the Egyptians to associate the beetle with one of the many aspects of the great sun-god, that of the rising sun, Khepri.”
http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/permex/egypt/egs-text.htm