Fecal River

there has been a

spill and overflow

river once clear now

mucous thick,

abstract articles

floating past,

as i wonder where

it flows,

a meander

with tissue caught

on twigs,

testaments and 

statements

such utterances of

truth,

drying out gnawed

by feral rats,

how much further 

does it go,

the stench becomes

a taste infecting

each mouthful,

we used to believe

now unsure,

as a child a silver

mouthful could

be scooped as now

with pallid cheeks

look at the boiling 

mass beneath my

gaze