Challenge
Challenge of the Month XII
The Finale. You’re living on the streets and want it to end. Write about your last moments, why you’re over it, and how you’re about to go out. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose. $100 purse to our favorite entry. Outstanding entries will be shared with our publishing partners.
Crybabies Electric Tattooing
breathing in Delhi. at the crossroads
of airplanes exhausted
and docking ships,
oil on board.
what to expect?
hop into your severe weather shelter
across from the merchants
boasting:
blackwork tattoos
for just one week
as the season changes
the pain will help you sleep
so please keep them clean.
breathing in Delhi. patterns of power
exhausted
and the light gives out,
black voices unite.
what to expect?
sound the alarm.
stay out of the flow of traffic
of aiplanes exhausted
and docking ships,
carrying the sick.
For just one week
sound the alarm -you are here-
electric tattooing
crybabies
in the severe weather shelter
and the lights have already given out.
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