foxing
raze i am a wind-
wobbled fence,
top rail torn
by the teeth
of restless
rodents.

i part my pickets
to watch a woman
wipe her phone's
face with the hem
of a shirt half as
long as she is tall.

if i were a book,
you couldn't pry
the liver spots from
my jaundiced pages
with god's hands.

where you see
the irrefutable
evidence of aging,
i see the wounds
that have weathered
me into what i am.

to paint over the pain
would be to miss out
on the miracle of
having survived it.
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what's it to you?
who go
blather
from