Day 167 of the 365 day poem challenge.
Word of the day staid meaning: "characterized by dignity and propriety."
Incompetence
Red bloody raw incompetence
Smacks me in the stomach till I see stars
I'm hanging off a meat hook dripping
The flesh is hanging and the air is cool and it's relaxing all this pain
It cuts past the numbing and the blisters
There was an inflatable mattress
Several children jumped and darted over him until he as you might imagine
Described himself as deflated
And knowing so much failure
My staid past well behind me
Behind tall white picket nail fences and a warm embrace of white porcelain rubber skin
I saw a place beyond the pines
Where bark was lush and leaves were ever green
I saw it and it distracted me from
Obliterating thoughts of desperate panic where I lay open at night in sweats awaiting the mortal demise
Awaiting the end
Awaiting the judging eyes and doors
Can there be more than this?
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