9/18/19 11:48Pm
I went to kohl’s today and bought
myself a nice new skin suit
it’s a sheer black void
freezing to the touch
and i can feel it scrape my skull
when i stretch it over my head
the old rot falls away like mottled bark
on musty fallen timber
the spotted lanternfly is invasive
it wants to reproduce so much
that it kills trees to do it
there is nothing more vile
and truly small
than killing a tree
and yet i sit here and push the bellows
on the fire at the core
ask me if i’m a tree
“no,” as my canopy drops leaves,
“I put on this nice skin you see.”
when i wear my new skin suit
and none of the branches poke through
i could be like one of you