The Shit Eaters

The truth is beautiful because it’s real.

There are a lot of shit eaters out there.

It seems my audience doesn’t like 

hard truth expressed in poetry;

what do they want to hear?

Lotus eaters, shit eaters, same thing…

they can’t tell the difference

between what they eat,

and the truth…very sad indeed.
That's why Odysseus's men
became pigs.

Some of my used to be best friends

are shit eaters. 

Would you hang out with someone

you loved, but ate shit all the time?

I don’t think so….you’d quickly run out

of perfumed handkerchiefs, what the 

Europeans used ’til they discovered

plumbing.

In fact, it’s the Age of shit eating.

I saw a publication, years ago, 

(this is fact), an underground sex

rag extolling the virtues of eating shit.

I know some who would want a

subscription.

The opposite of true is false.

The opposite of healthy food

is shit. So why do people eat it?

Because their heads are full of it.

I didn’t create the truth….

I just report it.