warts and all

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the ugly inside comes to fore
black blooms red in the pore
rate the scale, the horrid score
never ending always more

point at my horrid face and shoot.
a needle bullet tunnels through
paint splatters in point-charted lines
the other side- scene of crime

silver steel sharp, sometimes scalpel
slice each fault open, actually, yellow
is an infected green, crimson is a bruised blue black sheen
dyed petals peeled back, sprouts crawling along vined veins, bloodiest you've ever seen.

each thought flows into snow-capped peaks
pustules with a password
to keep me humble

the ugly inside comes to fore
black blooms red in the pore
rate the scale, the horrid score
never ending always more

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