This hay(na)ku chain is the second one I wrote for this week’s Three Word Wednesday prompt – to use the words “avoid”, “class” and “sticky”. I dug into my mental vault back to high school for this one. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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I’ve
avoided your
burning acid eyes
which
could lay
me completely bare
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I wrote two for Three Word Wednesday – this forward and reverse chained hay(na)ku is the first one. This was inspired by a post on Brian’s blog, “I Detest Labels”. This week’s prompt was to use the words “sticky”, “avoid”, and “class”. Enjoy.
-Nicole
admissions
of weakness
become sticky labels
attaching to skin
covering it
completely
you
soon disappear
beneath the paper
and gummy glue
then some take
up sharpies
and
write
insults upon
your labeled self
all other see
are those
epithets
which
sink beneath
the labels into
your very flesh
you become them
you could
succumb
to
them and
your name transform
into a class
of dysfunction
defining
you
simply by
your admitted weakness
this is why
people might
avoid
sharing
the very
things that could
break them in
everyone else’s
eyes
Written 7/23/08
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