Tanned Pieces

1 - Paperbacks

At a bargain shop –
skins are endless

lined in shelves;
thickened with dust

the choice is yours
what skin to wear

but please, haggle for mine
for though, I’m dilapidated,

my bones are priceless.


2 - Closed Pores

Others die with skin unscathed
Thus, Earth rejected their skin attached
For their spirits rot within their selfless lot,
Unable to escape from a close-fist mind,
And the incarcerated smell is a stagnant well –
An incurable disease; a risk of malignant mutation.

So do not bury a person’s meat with its greedy covering
Peel of the sheath, the Earth has no use for it
Not even as a fertilizer…not even as dumpsite filler.

3 - Shedding

The woman
uncloaks
her heavy robe –

Revealing the
arrogance
of her beauty

and the
stubbornness
of her sexuality.

For under the glaring sun,
she is a confident statuette
with her sun-kissed skin.

Only a woman
knows how to
undressed.