09-22-2017, 11:17 PM
Edit 1
Prickled and sour sapped
I found you by the roadside,
your fall, split white
on chestnut brown.
The ground drowns
in a crinkled collapse
as feet shuffle sound
through wind-cornered clusters.
Rain needles,
sharp as sketch book pencils,
scurry shoppers along,
run for cover, high streets.
Blotted damp under a railway arch
I pull up my hood and shudder,
bone deep,
on this top button day.
Original
I picked you from the curb,
prickled and sour sapped,
your fall, split white
on chestnut brown.
The ground drowns
in a crinkled collapse
as feet shuffle sound
through wind-cornered clusters.
Rain needles,
sharp as sketch book pencils.
empty out,
run for cover high streets.
Blotted damp under a railway arch.
I pull my hood up and hide away,
bone deep,
on this top button day.
Prickled and sour sapped
I found you by the roadside,
your fall, split white
on chestnut brown.
The ground drowns
in a crinkled collapse
as feet shuffle sound
through wind-cornered clusters.
Rain needles,
sharp as sketch book pencils,
scurry shoppers along,
run for cover, high streets.
Blotted damp under a railway arch
I pull up my hood and shudder,
bone deep,
on this top button day.
Original
I picked you from the curb,
prickled and sour sapped,
your fall, split white
on chestnut brown.
The ground drowns
in a crinkled collapse
as feet shuffle sound
through wind-cornered clusters.
Rain needles,
sharp as sketch book pencils.
empty out,
run for cover high streets.
Blotted damp under a railway arch.
I pull my hood up and hide away,
bone deep,
on this top button day.
If your undies fer you've been smoking through em, don't peg em out