Poem – rpm (By Abdulrahman M Abu-yaman)

rpm (rhetorical paradoxi-metaphorisis)

scleras, snow white
pupils, dilated.

brain box, sparking
incandescently. he asks

the physician: ‘tell me doctor,
what’s my malady?’ stares at

his sloppy zig-zag manuscript
and replies ‘rpm’. not comprehending,

he utters, ‘excuse me?’, physician expatiates:
‘rhetorical paradoxi-metaphorisis, a rare

cerebral disorder in which the forebrain
“wordyfactures” weird grandiloquent and

aesthetic phrases and clauses sub-
consciously, using unconventional axioms.’

‘any cure?’, patient inquires. ‘not that
i know of’ was the response. ‘doctor, is

this a gift or a curse?’, still inquisitive.
‘that depends on your usage’ he replies