you never see
the aftermath of an
exorcism – just the
ruddy happy family so
relieved the spirit’s gone but
what about the ribs that
banged against the ceiling or the
joints that took a beating from
contorting like a crab the
spine must a be a mess with
crushed up crumbled vertebrae
from the head’s violent
spinning like a
dreidel on speed the
spleen is likely
ruptured from haphazard
levitation and the
brain bounced and
bruised a ping pong
in the skull – and then
there’s the mental side from
acting like a jerk a
long list of sorrys and
amends the soul
could use some soothing
to coax it back in place to
recover from the
houseguest that
was literally
from hell – of course
all this jazz is as seen on
TV – but demons don’t
restrict themselves to
fiction.
-ryn gargulinski.12.04.13
