What’s the noodle you are sucking out that tangle of thoughts?
Why are you counting each grain of rice in the bowl?
Eat when you’re hungry, mindful necessity.
Analysis of calories and nutrients, an obsessive mindfuck.

Only option is for disaster, everything for you leads to pain
Crisis after crisis, unending cycles, nothing but tiresome shame
Reward your good decisions, your plans for coping get used
Indigo clouds and brightly coloured dragonflies look on, confused

A cup of tea warms the empty
Tugging me back to earth
My favourite thing approaching forty
Trying to feel my worth

Send me a message
Don’t be a stranger
I’m not obsessive
Share what pains yer

Colonoscopy DNA editing
Gut biome discovered
Sixty minutes waiting and waiting
Constipation recovered

A bee stuck in glue placed by a menacing child
The call of the cuckoo across the rain-soaked valley
Sheltering insects wait out the storm
Only to cry tears of silk and light

A claw reached into my pocket
Looking for a treat
Fur from my pet in a locket
Give it something to eat

Crash wack-a-doodle!
Up jumped the moon
Said ‘You’ve got nothing to lose-el.
You big stupid baffoon!’