is six years late
in writing his part
for the Insane Clown Posse's
2009 song "Miracles"
in which the clown-made-up
"horrorcore" rap-rock duo
(whose fans
are lovingly called Juggalos)
express wonderment
with natural phenomena
such as "mountains
trees
the seven seas"
the "sun and the moon
and even Mars
the Milky Way
and fucking shooting stars"
and the phenotypic resemblance
apparent in how "Shaggy's little boy
looks just like Shaggy"
but here it is.
"Just the way the Earth
rotates on its axis
how far away it is
from the sun.
These are all
very complex things.
Gravity where did it come from?"
But just to make it clear
despite his MD
which he used
for operating
on delicate tissue
of humans'
primary thinking apparatus
and for which
he won an award
for "miraculously"
(with a 70-person team
and 22 hours of work)
in 1987
separating conjoined twins
who were attached
at the head
he "don't wanna talk
to a scientist"
about global warming
being something
at least heavily influenced
by human activity
setting the matter with
"Y'all motherfuckers lying
and getting me pissed."
(The good doctor
may care
for neither rap
nor rock
nor presumbly horrorcore music
nor presumbly horrorcore music
but he loved that verse so much
he just had
to say it again.)
This poem © 2015 Emily Cooper.
