by David Feela
So it’s true that it’s not true
that 90% of all colon procedures
identify cancerous growths.
So it’s also true that being 50
gives you only a 50% chance
of finding polyps in the tract
where men (mostly) suffer
the indignities of being
probed for alien life.
Nothing, it seems, is conclusive
except that final breath
where all the fiber you ate
makes no difference
and the trouble you’ve feared
sneaks up from behind.
David Feela is a poet, free-lance writer, writing instructor, book collector, and thrift store pirate. His work has appeared in regional and national publications, including the High Country News "Writers’s on the Range," Mountain Gazette, and in the newspaper as a "Colorado Voice" for The Denver Post. He is a contributing editor and columnist for Inside/Outside Southwest and for The Four Corners Free Press. A poetry chapbook, Thought Experiments (Maverick Press), won the Southwest Poet Series. A new poetry book, The Home Atlas, will be released in 2009.
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