A Bad Week

Your body hangs inane inside
__a loose tank top
__barely alive.

You've missed spots and I
__don't know if you're aware
__your patchy hair

sounds a warning siren there.
__A slick and shave'd
__your clammy skin

cautious bumps, the hairs' blunt ends
__And slaloming
__I think you'll find the ride

a plasma torch and other
__middling states of matter
__apparatus.

Indelibly you bob and wave
__your linking rings,
__your road: dirt-paved.

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