I.
Skin can speak in sounds
not just tattoos
drumheads do
boom
boom
boom
marching soldiers off to war
their skin
fried crisp in napalm's incandescence
blown away in scarlet ribbons
by clever roadside bombs
epidermus nicotined yellow
everyone smokes over there
do lungs have skin?
II.
I've painted flesh
in many tints and shades
I enjoy doing it
I often get a hard on
no reason to work in nudes
unless you get aroused
with every loaded stroke
III.
Look at my hands
an old man's hands
smooth once
tan and strong
I could grip and throw a baseball
over the moon
I could engrave the Madonna's eyelashes
on a Narwhale tusk
now I see deep into my skin
the folds, the wrinkles
I read time there
I scan my gnarly knuckles
for any sign of Fate
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Adding your comment:
Had you not been too late for the contest, I bet you'd have won.
