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TulipJune

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

9 poems·Since October 2020
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Stretch

November 29, 2020

Stretch your taffy skin

Your misshapen bones

Pull at your flesh barrier

Your skin has no name

A part of you is They 

Their hanging breasts 

So downturned

As if they have the intent 

Of simply falling off

They disapprove of this flesh, this carnage

Textured is what we call their legs

Snippets of soft skin beneath pockets of tissue thick with scars

This body is a scream

This body yearns to be anything else.

 
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