Humans Are Like Mushrooms

Humans are like mushrooms

Sometimes delicious, sometimes poisonous,

Here today, gone tomorrow.

Humanity is like mycelium

Forever lacing new networks

That persist underground

Long after the lives they pop up

As representatives perish

Leaving Putrid puddles on the earth

And ideas in the air

There are spores soaring in my spit,

What color are your prints?

Let me smell your gills

And identify by what you tell

Of your life in a story

Erecting monuments

When the going gets gory.