Psychological Gridlock

WD-40 resistant, cranky
mental gears no longer appraised,
honored, nor prized
as a precision crafted tool

never adequately utilized,
when eyes stared blankly
taking up space and
time (sigh hence) during

during twelve years
of public school
passively mute as a general rule
ambivalent, whether I sank or swam

during physical education
time in the pool
evincing being in
somnambulant state giving

top notch 40 ache curs and a mule
a run for his/her money,
plus also outwitting
any motley fool

nonetheless garnering huzzahs
if challenged to silent duel
despite implacable blackened
barbs didst unspool

assaulting me though
vicious and cruel
fast forward to
Matthew Scott Harris

at this present age
once feigned numbskull,
now deeply rutted,
pockmarked, cratered, asper

useful as fist size asteroid,
which post mortem will
not surprisingly, definitively,
and conclusively gauge

imagine dissecting my
fifty plus shades
of gray matter
revealing analogously glommed

together one severely
gunked up bacteriophage,

where once upon a time,
when a newborn babe
feeling warmth mother's chest,
she long since

passed away forced guest
to attend masquerade
hosted by grim reaper,
a most nefarious,

obnoxious, and pernicious pest
intricately, handsomely, genetically
her cremated remains
freed to the four corners

of the globe quest
inert particles integrated
within biosphere, she remains
perpetually in motion,

and never at rest
within infinite void
nonetheless...the spirit
of (the late) Harriet Harris

passed the electric
acid kool aid test,
and thus continues
to sprinkle the world
wide web with zest.