my mouth kissed the concrete,
tounge sprawled across the curb;
helpless, like a worm trying
to escape the heat of blacktop.
fists pounding against my helpless
body, as an enraged percussionist-
blood seeping from bruised skin,
like biting into an aged apple;
furrowed flesh, mangled and destroyed.
my body wrinkled into a ball,
beaten to a mere pulp, and left with
nothing more than the worthless core.
I am the counterpart of a voodoo
doll caught in an elephant stampede,
a mesh of dismantled ligaments, trampled
skin, and rupurted arteries.
