POEM: Gustatorily Gruesome

Hair — stringy, slimy, putridly brown, slides across
Clotted cream dotted with cherry bits — then drips down
Hind to wasteland of waistband; doughy, disordered.

Nice ones say it’s cute;
Eyes averted from bulbous belly.

Dumb ones say it’s sweet,
Content in oblivion's cheek.

House shudders, dreading its return. Bits of fabric
Peel away from skin, dangle, escape to rain-soaked
Pavement. Wreck shrieks, not revs.

They say its special.
Every night, it prays they're right.


© Crystal Charee — Original Work

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