Thin Kin

Skeleton!
Tell us what you lack ...
the ability to love,
your flesh so slack?
 
Will we frighten you,
grown as pale & unsound ...
when we also haunt
the unhallowed ground?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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September 16, 2019 at 9:49 PM
Ha, ha! Great title and great question there, Michael. I like the edginess of this poem. Best wishes, Gershon
Burch Avatar
September 16, 2019 at 10:36 PM
Thanks, Gershon, and I'm glad you got the macabre humor in my title!
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