Skin

You are sitting on raw skin
Too thin to pad 
Your polyester lining
And conform to your 
Thick lines of droop
Sad form
Slow age crept up 
Like decades of neglect
And wound their way
To your tired set
Of withering reproach
Copyright © | Year Posted 2006

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