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Numerology (Ode to the Enneagram)


 
Deepsouth v.6.n.1 (Winter 2000)
Copyright (c) 2000
by Craig Biddick.
A Poem by Craig Biddick
  All rights reserved.

 

NUMEROLOGY (Ode to the Enneagram)
 

Funny really - you're a one and I'm a six. 
John's a one - you know? Same sense of order, 
control, desire for perfection. 

And me - well fear's my lodestar, my world spins 
on knowing anxiety is on the menu. 
The cool art of pretending all is well - but not 
inside. 
Colonic dyspepsia - life's a nervous fart. 
That's a good theme - Freud's anal allegory. 
You've got the anal retentive fixation, 
and I'm a receptor ( no discourse on orientation). 
But poor Matt - oral expulsive five ! 
No fun when so much crap pours from the dialectic 
 of three dispositions of energy. 
Perhaps we can exorcise our demons, the one, the six, the five - 
delineate a treaty, put our egos and superegos aside. 
I was never good at Maths.