a poem by Michael DeMaranville

Unbearable

stifling, sticky space

it's not the crowd

pressed like garlic in a press.

No more their stares,

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I have been laowai

waygookin, inostranets

long enough, your eyes

no longer ruffle my rhino skin.

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But, the smell!

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Caked, crusty armpit pools

like a musty mildewed toilet

arms aimed, hands

reached to the heavens,

prayer of bodily entropy.

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And you! Gawking

wide-eyed face of decay

sagging like a soggy diaper,

reeking of rot,

take a fucking shower!

Make this ride a little less unbearable.

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