How to Tell If There is a Worm in Your Intestine How to tell if there is a worm in your intestine,
clinging to your villi with its squiggly muscular head
and taking all your half-digested meals into its oral cavity
and processing you through its many segments
running free from its evolutionary anus:

If you eat whole meaty meals
and entire dishes on side
but feel no energy gained
and you shit not for the duration of a week,
then you may have a worm in your intestine,
which is probably there because you,
being the debased individual you are,
in appeasing the uncontrollable desires of your foot fetish,
habitually massage your sister’s feet
with your tongue,
you lick the bunions wreaking of month-old sweat on each disfigured toe,
and you should have known,
O sinful one
that because she rarely bathes
(claiming she is loathe to rid herself of natural oils),
her feet are host
to a colony of ring worms
all too happy to
establish a new settlement
in your lovely, hospitable intestine