Thursday, September 10, 2009

underbelly

And when, some day, you tire
of me; and bored,
tear me or cut,
slice or delicately
dice;
you will see,
I'm not flesh and
blood inside but
what you never saw,
what I swallowed with my foolish dreams:
A sodden, broken
rotten watermelon
dripping water
and salt.

On your shoes.

1 comment:

VaishKan said...

This is my most favourite of your works, Jan. Edges on violence but somehow spells helplessness