Daily Prompt
Write a new post in response to today’s one-word prompt
He wants take his skin
He wants to be in his skin
The frustrated little guy
Wants out of his own thin skin
Is my skin safe, is yours is hers?
He wants out of his skin
He needs to be rid of his skin
The frustrated little guy
Trolls for skin
in his car
on foot
by tweet and by book by hook and by crook
How will he take the skins,
how will he steal those skins,
how will he wear those skins
once they are his?
Will they smell? Will they talk? Will they scream
against his own bones?
He really doesn’t care because
He wants take his skin
He wants to be in his skin
The frustrated little guy
Wants out of his own thin skin
Will he remember once he wears those skins
that he
trolled for those skins
in his car
and on foot
by tweet and by book by hook and by crook
Will he be able to forget
will he be able to make us forget
The frustrated little guy who
cut away, who tore away
with desperate his own desperate hands
his own thin skin.
This reminds me of the movie Silence of the Lambs where the serial killer was stealing people’s skin to make a coat.
I was inspired by parasites and politics. I know, weird.
Wow this was really painful and itchy to read! I loved it. The way you use skin as a thing in its own right really just makes this all the better.
It does have a life of its own! I was at a tattoo shop watching the artists at work and that’s when I really felt the sense that the skin was expressing itself as opposed to just being a decoration.