BY ANY OTHER NAME?
What do I call this thing I don
without upsetting anyone?
By any other name so sweet
to catch digested food I eat. I used to call this thing a ‘bag’
as on my belly it would sag
to catch the awful smelly waste
’till in the toilet it was placed. As fashions change each passing day
and ‘bag’ is not the thing to say.
Now suddenly, it’s not P.C.
to wear a ‘bag’ as part of me. But for a wordsmith it’s no drag
to find a new word for my ‘bag’.
Upon one word I’ve no reliance
so I might call it my ‘appliance’. For this is what they first called it
when faeces had its new exit
from the stoma on my tum
instead of coming from my bum. For others it’s a ‘pouch’ and they
have every right to have their say.
But this term ‘pouch’ comes into play
with different meaning when it’s ‘J’. Some say it is a ‘badge’ they wear
to signify that they’ve been ‘there’
and overcome adversity
in life’s ‘crap’ university. This latter term I like a lot
for it hints at the why and what
of all the things that we’ve been through
which brings together me and you. B. Withers 2018
without upsetting anyone?
By any other name so sweet
to catch digested food I eat. I used to call this thing a ‘bag’
as on my belly it would sag
to catch the awful smelly waste
’till in the toilet it was placed. As fashions change each passing day
and ‘bag’ is not the thing to say.
Now suddenly, it’s not P.C.
to wear a ‘bag’ as part of me. But for a wordsmith it’s no drag
to find a new word for my ‘bag’.
Upon one word I’ve no reliance
so I might call it my ‘appliance’. For this is what they first called it
when faeces had its new exit
from the stoma on my tum
instead of coming from my bum. For others it’s a ‘pouch’ and they
have every right to have their say.
But this term ‘pouch’ comes into play
with different meaning when it’s ‘J’. Some say it is a ‘badge’ they wear
to signify that they’ve been ‘there’
and overcome adversity
in life’s ‘crap’ university. This latter term I like a lot
for it hints at the why and what
of all the things that we’ve been through
which brings together me and you. B. Withers 2018
