Friday, May 17, 2013

5-17 First Impression


You had no taste.
The clothes you wore,
embarrassed me.
Though I didn't know you yet.
I was repulsed by your community collected,
over-washed, un-ironed,
neutral toned, once white,
t-shirt, now filled with pot holes,
dirt streaks that would never come out,
complemented by pants that were never jeans, nor khakis, but instead some sort of,
rain-patented, left-over, fish gutted, baggy cracked, slicker-sucker, never-left.

You seemed unaware,
that this was not—
acceptable.
Baring your muddy, bone-twisted,
calloused bare feet, that reeked,
and stank of the earth,
when,
you reached out your hand and
smiled at me.
Why would I not turn away?
What were you thinking?

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