Disgusting

I was well toward the end

Of middle age before I

Realized I loved saying

Disgusting things but didn't

Really myself much enjoy hearing

Them.  They

Go to the heart of life.

I realize (I think

Everyone realizes this),

Since almost everyone

Can agree: Life, so

Generally disgusting.

But no one really

Wants to hear

That much about

The disgusting (except,

Perhaps, those who have frozen

Significant portions

Of their senses of humor

In the fifth grade as I have).

Those of us who love

Verbally bringing up

The disgusting

Incessantly

Are usually prevented

From ever holding

Truly executive positions

In any organized

Situation, but there are,

Looking around I've noticed,

Plenty of us

Placed somewhere

In middle-management.

We are the ones

Managing things

"On the ground,"

As they say, the ground

Which is also where,

I can't help but bring it

Up, most beasts of the field

leave

Their ghastly deposits.