Tanka On A Common American Idiom

He spoke with both sides

of his mouth---mandibular

and rectal; and both

will be violated by

that slow-turning spit . . . in Hell.

 

Kyakuchuu

Author's Notes/Comments: 

This is about my former acquaintance, Twining Diurnal, whom I knew from 1986 to 2004.  He either avoided, alienated, or betrayed his local church, the lodge, and his always dwindling number of friends until he was totally alone when he died, and laid there for days before anyone found him.

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