Secrets of Old Age
I am here to say loud and clear
since no one else seems to be saying it
or at least not loud enough to make clear
that aging initiates a new and challenging
relationship with one's bowels reminiscent
of the first years of life
and one ignores this new reality
at the peril of great embarrassment
and discomfort -- and, for the record,
this new independence of the digestive tract
actually has nothing to do with current
politics, though of course the Tea Party
inspires among thinking humans a visceral
reaction that might find expression
in the bowels.
