today is made of tin and tiny.
it smells of metal and has big thin fingers.
today leaves sticky prints all over.
you're smudged there where it touched you.
you are grimy! so stay away from today.
today believed that slippery witchy
& ate her bloated fruit. It's true.
now today is hoarse
& shivering & white.
but it deserves it.
today is a mirror, and in it you might be shrinking
you look like nostrils and nine strands of hair
and heaps of heavy breathing.
you wish today would knock on another somewhere door
a deadlocked door-not near here-
and it could stay and struggle there
wriggling its silly fingers in a little jiggly lock.
no one wants today
sticking its shaking face in their windows.
it scares them. so just say:
go away, today. and stop acting like that.
you won't regret it in the morning.
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