he stepped in itGawddammit Gawddammit gawddammitgawddammit
not a curb to sit on
a stick to be had
he sat down on the stiff brown fall
grassbent his kneeturned his leg so he could
see the bottom of his shoe
smeared sole
tuckedup into the heel
looked turdish
wasnt
didnt smell like shitit smelled
awwfull
if he walked into a building people would turn and look at himknow it was him
as they did when he wouldve bet dough his fart wouldve been silent
it betrayed him
if he couldnt trust himself
Who then rhetorical
Wha smells
OhChrist he was gonna have to
contend with them
I stepped in something
Yathink
Wha
Ive no idea
Scrape it off
Ive nothing to use
Stand
Scrape it off in the dry grassdrag your foot
Asshole
Think I havent tried
from the back
couldnt see who
I think I know wha it is Smelled it more than a hunred years ago
A hunred yea . .
.
. Don make a facethink I woudnt remember a stink like tha
Thas better
Ostranenie Ohstranenie O
S T R
A N E
N I E Yalike strange
Sayin it means nothing
Defamiliarisation
Cat named Victor
Shklovsky Russian Formalism movement Force others to see common
things in unfamiliar or strange ways
Sees a sense
Smells a sense
Touch it
Im not touchinit
Might imagin . .
.
. Tastins off the table
Unfamiliars kinda like defamiliar
Is
Lets go with tha a rumble a hubbub
crowdsourced they agreed
Ill make it unanimous
a wave of applause
Wha am I to do with my sho . .
. . Lose it
1102, Tuesday,
3 2. 26
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