Words

WORDS
by Tilok Adnan

I like thinking about words
They can be unrelated
But if played with well enough
Everything fits together
Like a dog on a bitch,
Our friends from different niche cliques
Who come together and instantly click

I am thinking today about the words
Guillotine, and Gelatin
And Pelicans,
Melanin, Mexican,
Medicine, Paroxetine 
All irrelevant

But two hydrogen and one oxygen
Can come together to form water
A reaction so elegant
I'd use that to wash
The blood of a beheaded pig
And turn it into an ingredient
By combining the collagen taken
From the fish that are often
Food for wide beaked birds with
Fat throats and this concoction
I'd use for cosmetics
And I'd market it to insecure women
With dark skin so that they can
Look closer to brown North Americans
Who pop pills on a daily basis -
Often for their mental health -
Mood stabilizers and antidepressants
And all of this is a far fetched thought
Far from relevant.