Man Saved from Mud

abigfatcanofworms Uncategorized November 8, 2022November 11, 2022 1 Minute

(i)

it happened:
two days of brown drowning

imagine the loss
to see one’s self disappearing
in this gelatinous top-slide
from our known Earth

our limbs, without leverage
prove fragile as seaweed
how inexorably we tunnel in
with every writhe and struggle

and the inkling cold
oozing, wet and tentacled
against brittle ribs 

(ii)

he’s in all the betweens
of sheets and beeps and neverland

attached to
renaissance tubes
their whims and 
plastic puffing

a child, beside him
pushes a lolly pop
like pride into his hand

whispers

“Wow GeeGee!
 I wanna rescue tractors
  when I’m a hundred!”

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Published November 8, 2022November 11, 2022

10 thoughts on “Man Saved from Mud”

Mister Bump UK says:

November 8, 2022 at 11:39 pm

appropriate for cop.

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1. abigfatcanofworms says:
  
  November 9, 2022 at 4:11 am
  
  Sorry. Not sure I understand this.
  
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  1. Mister Bump UK says:
    
    November 9, 2022 at 4:34 am
    
    cop26? 27? 55? Doesn’t much matter which one. Doesn’t much matter which, they’re all talk and no action.
    
    Seriously, COP27 is currently going on in Egypt.
    
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  2. abigfatcanofworms says:
    
    November 9, 2022 at 4:46 am
    
    Yes. I knew it was going on. I don’t know details though. Did you mean it as a metaphor? We’re all stuck in the mud?
    
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  3. Mister Bump UK says:
    
    November 9, 2022 at 4:48 am
    
    no I meant it more literally. As in, we sit talking about it while it is happening all around us.
    
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Misky says:

November 9, 2022 at 4:15 am

My dad had to dig his backhoe out of a muddy field once. He never tried ignoring mud *ever* again. Is this a real story?

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1. abigfatcanofworms says:
  
  November 9, 2022 at 4:44 am
  
  Mostly. The title links to the article. I need to make that clearer.
  
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  1. Misky says:
    
    November 9, 2022 at 5:24 am
    
    I read it on my phone, so I missed that.
    
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anotherkatewilson says:

November 11, 2022 at 1:27 pm

Wow… this is brilliant Worms.
My neighbour nearly lost a horse stuck in mud a couple of years when we were in drought and her dam dried up to just black mud. Now everything is full and saturated and last week she had to tow her written-off car home with her tractor after the creek rose and took it. And we’ve got more flooding coming on Sunday. 😦
Lovely image of the lollipop like pride.

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1. abigfatcanofworms says:
  
  November 11, 2022 at 2:35 pm
  
  Thanks Kate. I remember you telling me the story of the horse. You don’t think of still mud (as opposed to a landslide) as so lethal. Or at least I don’t. Probably because i haven’t lived in the country.
  
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