Looking back, I like "feels" better. But since your mushroom is Amanita muscaria, and yes, is considered poisonous, it is also hallucinatory. Poison is how we get high, whether it's beer, cigarettes, or Jethro Tull. Shrooms throw one into a childlike state of wonderment or madness. Infanticide does rhyme, but etmologically, is probably the wrong if not opposite word (I cheated for cheap consonance). However, ancient Serbian Chukchee natives did ingest Amanita with reindeer milk, and then drink their urine to recycle their intoxication. Politicians do something similar, but it's called eating shit.
Mostly politicians and mushrooms…
Hahahahahah
I love this, along with your introduction. Keep writing, Sherman!
Thank you, Kathy!
psilocybe feel like infanticide
Could you elaborate on that?
Looking back, I like "feels" better. But since your mushroom is Amanita muscaria, and yes, is considered poisonous, it is also hallucinatory. Poison is how we get high, whether it's beer, cigarettes, or Jethro Tull. Shrooms throw one into a childlike state of wonderment or madness. Infanticide does rhyme, but etmologically, is probably the wrong if not opposite word (I cheated for cheap consonance). However, ancient Serbian Chukchee natives did ingest Amanita with reindeer milk, and then drink their urine to recycle their intoxication. Politicians do something similar, but it's called eating shit.
Wow, that’s all wonderfully I formative and has me thinking the poem needs to be 20 words instead of nine!
your poem is brilliant.
You would have to change the title.
I am pondering. Somewhere down the road, I’ll have another go at it.
Actually, it was the Siberian Chukchee natives. If they can eat it, I can edit.