Skin
We look at the clean, perfect face,
feel that smoothness
against the backs of our fingers,
long to stroke it with our fingertips,
place our lips against it, sniff, rub gently.
That was yesterday.
Today, fingernails dig
into a scab on that skin.
Try to pull it off that face, let out blood?
Do you still love it,
that flesh, that skin?
That being? Today?
(11 Dec
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Categories:
scab over, anger, fun,
Form: Free verse
Breaking News Skiberty Scab
Breaking News
David J Walker
Fliberty flimm flamm
Giberty gib
Skiberty skib scab
Floperty flib
Zippity do dah
Pigerty pigg
Rigerty wash rag
Oily rig
And that’s why
You will die
Unless you
Giberty jig
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Categories:
scab over, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
scab over, betrayal, break up, deep,
Form: Verse
The Scab, Or For Donna
Covered thinly, by a bloody clot.
Unhealed.
Congealed.
Unwelcome obligations to eat, sleep, dress
fulfilled.
That your body is still here
is the best that can be said
of this,
the first year.
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Categories:
scab over, anniversary, bereavement, body, death
Form: Free verse
A Scab
you were never in love
with me except for that feeling
that burst through your cock and crowed for
me at dawns break and alarmed all but
a saint and allowed room for fashion
at a reasonable rate
coupled with all of your expression and crippling indecision
the catacombs of your whys fevering the attempts
to boiling points and highs cooling them with
distance
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Categories:
scab over, lost love, passion, song-lyric
Form: Dramatic Verse
Mind Scab
I feel
the scars rip open,
the scars
of past torment
gushing out
puss and blood.
Burning,
burning
with such scorching heat
that my brain
screams in agony.
Stakes pounded
through hand and foot
while
blood and
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Categories:
scab over, angst, depression, loss,
Form: Free verse