Best Thick Skinned Poems

Six simpering thick-skinned shifty spinster sisters stiffly sit
Stitching sticky skid-marked scivvies of sixty sick stingy sailors.
Six sick from stitching scivvies of sixty sick scrimping sailors
Stickle over nickels; those insistent six thick-skinned spinster tailors!


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“Thick Skinned – What it Feels Like for a Girl”



When you speak 
it’s as if stars cascade
out of your mouth 
galaxies you produce
musical incantations 
that I listen religiously to 

I watch your lips 
form glistening cupids’ bows

they spread wide open 
like the subtle legs 
of...

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Test my armor, my shield,
lash me, whip me, draw my blood-
Watch my thick skin heal....

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One quality about myself that I know for sure
is that I'm much more thick skinned than others give me credit for,
otherwise so many I encounter would be left unconscious laying flat on the floor....

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