anal retentive roots

[joel]

It isn’t my messiah complex— lamb
ascensions to the skies with downy hopes
that float on dandelion parachutes
in glory over earthy heads: the thought
that I might rise, retire, return and plant
a fresh, new life does not entice my dreams—
all this I take for granted; and I must
admit I’m glad to take it. I don’t trust
this me for any more than what it seems
I am— and my messiah complex slant
has all to do with me and what I’ve got:
to not set down roots, but be the roots,
be planted and tended as stethoscopes
of human proof iamb what I am.

[Totenkopf]

Aye, I --one of the ugliest words in the anglo lexicon, ich denke.

aye ham vat eye am

Couragio!