{"id":453,"date":"2017-07-14T07:08:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T07:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetryofscience.peachpuff-wolverine-566518.hostingersite.com\/?p=453"},"modified":"2017-07-14T07:08:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T07:08:04","slug":"disgusting-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/thepoetryofscience\/453\/disgusting-holes\/","title":{"rendered":"Disgusting Holes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Running in dread from the<\/p>\n

The sickly secret of a<\/p>\n

Bee\u2019s honeycomb,<\/p>\n

My nightmares are full of<\/p>\n

Buttered English muffins<\/p>\n

That morph into<\/p>\n

Deathstalker scorpions,<\/p>\n

And then back again into fields of cooked<\/p>\n

Corn on the cob.<\/p>\n

From the corner of my eye I see the<\/p>\n

Condensation on the inside of a bottle<\/p>\n

And I become anxious and afraid.<\/p>\n

Until one day,<\/p>\n

Somebody shows me a picture of<\/p>\n

Smallpox scars on a disheveled hand<\/p>\n

And I feel itchy all over.<\/p>\n

Later, you are holding a mug<\/p>\n

Of something hot;<\/p>\n

The coffee bubbles<\/p>\n

Over and I feel my saliva<\/p>\n

Glands well up.<\/p>\n

Instead of<\/p>\n

Blue octopuses and azure octopi,<\/p>\n

My dreams are now full of<\/p>\n

Red scabs and scarlet fever.<\/p>\n

My evolutionary phobia<\/p>\n

Replaced, and re-categorized into<\/p>\n

Nauseous disgust.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This is a shape<\/a> poem, inspired by recent research<\/a> into trypophobia (the fear of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes or bumps), and how this may, in fact, be a response linked to parasites and infectious disease.<\/p>\n

Previous explanations into trypophobia have focused on the evolutionary response to warning signs in nature; for example, the cluster of circles that appear on some poisonous animals like the blue-ringed octopus and the king cobra snake. As such trypophobia has been associated with intense fear.<\/p>\n

This new research proposes a new theory: that trypophobia is instead a feeling of disgust in relation to clusters of small holes or bumps, and that it likely arises from an evolutionary response to parasites and infectious diseases. When people suffering from trypophobia were shown images of clusters relating to diseased body parts (e.g. circular rash marks on a chest and a cluster of ticks), their responses to these images matched responses that are normally associated with disgust. Their responses to other non-disease-relevant images (e.g. drilled holes in a brick wall, a lotus flower seed pod)\u00a0also elicited similar responses, leading researchers to propose a new theory about trypophobia being linked to disgust rather than fear, and that most likely this resulted from the prevalence of round shapes in infectious diseases and marks caused by the infestation of parasites.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

An audio version of the poem can be heard here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The shape of this poem was created using a tool provided by\u00a0Festisite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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