Thursday, December 10, 2009

I am Jack's Medulla Oblongata....

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Have y'all seen Fight Club lately? Do you remember this part?  

"Listen to this. It's an article written by an organ in the first person. "I am Jack's medulla oblongata. Without me, Jack could not regulate his heart rate or breathing." There's a whole series of these. "I Am Jill's Nipples." "I Am Jack's Colon." "I Get Cancer. I Kill Jack."

I am Jack's raging bile duct.
I am Jack's cold sweat.
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
I am Jack's smirking revenge.
I am Jack's wasted life.
I am Jack's inflamed sense of rejection.
I am Jack's broken heart.






Interview with my Body
(2009)

I am Jia's aching feet
I'm really pissed off
I feel completely walked on
I hear the irony
My skin is breaking
Pulse is racing
Get off my back!
The ankles moan enough and now I have to hear the shins, knees and thighs complain too?
Maybe if they lost some damn weight it would be easier to carry them
Pompous jerks
I'm out of here when diabetes arrives.

I am Jia's sleepy eyes
When exactly did I come with sleeping bag accessories?
I've forgotten what rest is
These fluorescent lights are not ideal, but you try telling that to her
I wonder if I could get her attention by pinching this nerve back here
I'm totally sadistic
I can change color too
Mood ring of the body
Blue, green, gray -
But not black or brown
Hazel is racist

I am Jia's racing heart
Can someone tell me what the frick is going on out there?
I'm a little lost and I feel like we're having some communication problems
I used to run this joint back in the day
But now no one listens to me
Lungs react to what I say but I hear they've been out sick lately
Don't even get me started on kidneys after the stunt they pulled a few months ago
They've been fighting with feet
Feet says kidneys helped make them fat
I'd try to intervene but feet bitch about everything these days
I thought about asking eyes to let me know what's happening out there but I don't think I can trust them
And I'm pretty sure they're racist
I'm not as strong as I used to be
Breaks here, cracks there
Tired
Could someone call maintenance?

3 comments:

Kristina P. said...

I swear, once I turned 30, I totally fell apart.

And I love Fight Club.

Untypically Jia said...

I'm 25.

But I've always been an overachiever.

inkelywinkely said...

I love you Jia.

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