Challenge
Challenge of the Week CXXI
Fight Night. Perhaps it's a boxing bout, a shouting match, or an emotional struggle. Write about anything you want, so long as it involves a fight. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
lips, or something else equally violent
speak your words. destroy me.
give me something other
than the stained-glass, or the white rice,
tasting always too soft, tasting too much
of love. give me what i want, baby.
give me something lethal. you know me.
i cannot live without pressing the tenderness
until it breaks, without leaving
the kettle screaming & forgotten.
i am wide
and open-mouthed,
and ready for whatever is brave enough
to place itself between my jaws.
haunt me. make me afraid.
give me a feeling that I can look in the eyes
and name.
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