The Contortionist

The Contortionist

he devoted
his life
to the contortion
of his limbs
and his mind
bending and twisting them
in ways
never 
naturally
meant

he spent
his whole life
contorted
in the insanity
of discovering the right
perverse position
for fucking himself
in the ass
with his own 
cock

he spent
all of his life
committed
so embroiled
in trying
to get it right
it never occurred to him
it might be
physiologically
impossible

he spent
so much of his life
twisted and bent
trying to fuck himself
in the ass
with his own cock
that he never heard
any music
never saw
any art
never experienced
any love
outside of himself
that might have
otherwise
shone some light
on the absurd
wasted
predicament
that became
the whole
of his deformed
life

maybe he thought
with enough practice
he'd discover the trick
someday
and then 
he'd become
some sort of messiah
to us all
but he never
turned out to be
anything more
than a lunatic
who wasted away
tied up in knots
with his transcendent cause
of trying to fuck
himself
in the ass