Grass is Sweet Tinnitus

T-boned by a carjacker
who had overdosed on opium,
I rolled over, as shearing forces shredded
my stomach walls into vulnerable straw;

​My raw extremities were bereft
of an outstretched finger which
has always been frescoed but
is now intangible to me.

Frisking the sidewalk for an anchor, my fingers
ended up dog-earing leaves of grass, whose roots
nourished my bone marrows like filtrated milk.
Walt Whitman is why my stylus bleeds daily and I don't.

His free verses of himself grafted my limbs
to my own trunk without any yoking charges;
Whitman is the wanderlust of weathered hands,
All who adore outdoor air walk on his open road.

His phrases shielded my brains 
from a blitzkrieg of rubrics which wrung
awe by cutting branches of curiosity 
into wrongs and rights to climb;
His songs boomerang like 
the rings of Saturn, whose Olympic 
range exceeds the bar of every 
ladder, ruler, and graduated cylinder.

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