What if indeed

 I scare myself

Today's Verse: 20 August 2024

If I had a beard
What would it say?

Come close, my dear?

Go far away?

If I had a beard

What would it want

In the night?

In the dark?

How would it relate

To a lesser expression

Of my true self

The hair on my head?

On my chest?

In my ass?

In my nose?

My ears?

And under my arms?

When I die

Will the mortician care

To understand my feelings there

To wash and crop, perhaps perfume

The best of me, my salient plumes?