White Wires

August 20, 2018

Prickly tricky sickening white wires stab me

Like a miniscule Mike Myers with a fire poker smacking at my gums

But do these wires define me?

I’m an adult with braces, yes,

But I’m an adult nevertheless.

(Oh that must suck because you’re in coll-)

Yes. It sucks, and rips, and pulls

At my gums and my self-image

But the grace is that

What I says is the truth to me

And no pre-defined, pre-purported

Singular entity of anyone’s exemplary, quintessential,

Idiotic idea of the perfect man will hold me back.

I’m a phoenix with an arched back of scoliosis

and a face scorched with acne.

But even in my state of parabolic, paralyzed preadolescence

the recursive discourse of diction will restrain me icy chains

to the chair of narcissism and self-image.

At the end of the day, I will always be ashamed of my white wires.

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