Reading as an oasis amidst turbulent emotional travails

 

Metaphorical troubled waters deluge
pitched me to and fro,

analogous to ghosts
that haunted Ebenezer Scrooge,

yours truly violently tossed

impossible mission to experience refuge

 

except when deeply engrossed

between bound pages

thick and juicy tome one garden variety

generic bookworm doth ravish

escape courtesy his imagination

especially when tomes I wade thru huge.

 

Impossible mission to identify figurative source,

whereby I felt obliged to battle unseen force

blowing strong as Lake Wobegon

Norwegian bachelor farmers,

 

whose soused forebears heavily bundled

nevertheless healthy as horse,

implacable foe bore down perforce

(think Sisyphus pushing boulder) of course.

 

Try as I might to conjure where in the world

(wide web then nonexistent) diminutive lad

experienced his psyche got hurled

hither and yon as hibernating animals squirreled

 

nuts, what weather forecasters predicted

severe winter, where below zero temperatures

any ill clad Homo sapien imperiled

against the elements (of style),

 

would freeze to death succumbing

to brutally cold underworld

mine lovely (prepubescent) rattling bones

nearly swept me into icy netherworld

courtesy anorexia nervosa

aforementioned harsh adversity

 

now formerly starved little boy

can experience virtually augmented reality

where lifelike simulated scenarios,

when whiz kids

easily craft bytes designating computerworld.

 

Best now to condense and conclude

(without being in coon sitter writ nor rude)

the aforementioned tasty morsel food

for thought one ordinary wordsmith hewed

tragedy that befell aging baby boomer

 

one quiet natured contemplative dude,

who whiz also an aging pencil necked geek

still garnering psychological succor

delving into select printed material

 

some books dog eared and pages getting unglued

hoop fully amusing poem he brewed

ideas percolated within me noggin

purposely depriving body viz nutriments

no longer eschewed

 

cuz indelible harm wrought, such conjecture imbued

half dozen decades elapsed since

necessary sustenance I did agonizingly exclude

adolescent mystery still not understood.

 

As I racked up orbitz around Earth

physical shortcomings bespoke

self evident dearth

nsync with corporeal weathering transpired,

a band of adipose tissue

 

encircled abdominal girth

allowing, enabling, and providing

golden opportunity many love handles
whereby countless jellyrolls

of flab signify self worth.