True Horror is Truth <br />Can you handle the horror <br />of knowing the truth? <br /> <br />With fish hooked eyes of sincerity <br />and bleeding gums <br />covered in the pasteurized scum <br /> <br />of fluoridated mint flavored toothpaste <br />with stripes running down the back <br />of your bristled flossing tool <br /> <br />you clean the plaque from your life <br />while your dentist drills a hole <br />in your theory of relativity Einstein. <br /> <br />With callous indifference <br />your love squeezes brass balls <br />as she wrings your etiolated heart of its <br /> <br />last drops of bloody caring <br />and then pauses as she wipes her hands <br />on a paper napkin given to her <br /> <br />with a super sized order of salted lard. <br />Is any of this getting through to you? <br />Counting cholesterol both good and bad <br /> <br />makes no sense to your gout filled legs <br />as you walk up a flight of steep stairs <br />to get out of the basement as it floods <br /> <br />because someone predicted <br />a slight chance of rain <br />and you left your condoms in the locker <br /> <br />of your alma mater <br />while your illegitimate offspring <br />are being raised by a family of meteorologists <br /> <br />with bad joint pain and arthritis. <br />Hello Mr. Relativity <br />Can you hear me now? <br /> <br />Tarski's Truth Theorem <br />was an overstated fact. <br />For if truth and provability are assumed <br /> <br />to be interchangeable <br />then we all are Ape men <br />and it is a jungle out there and..... <br /> <br />And to top that horror off <br />'We've got No Bananas Today'<br /><br />Ted Sheridan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/it-depends-what-the-meaning-of-is-is/
