I'm Comfortable Here
My Skin Tells My Story
my pimples
my wrinkles
my freckles
my heckles
my surgeries
my tragedies
my fiery anger
my cold shoulder
my hungry fingers
my broken toes
my crooked nose
my bruised knees
my libidinous wheeze
my blemishes
my fetishes
my ink stains
my bad brains
my sunburns
my WeiRd tuRns
my tear tracks
my ass crack
my bald spot
my tooth rot
my moles
my holes
my teenage crushes
my cocaine rushes
my drunken comas
my AWFUL aromas
my shaggy nightmares
my shaved pubic hairs
~my albatrosses
~~~~my losses
~~~~~~my wins
~~~~~~```my sins''''
my First-Person improvisations
my Second-Person accusations
my Third-Person disassociations
my bogged
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plotlines
my **RIDICULOUS** ideas
my reoccurring redundancies
my consistent inconsistencies
my corrections
my corrected corrections
my poor puctua tion .?⁉^}!!<!‼️‼️!!!!!?⁉️{
my splecctering spellingz
(typos el ripe-os!)
my revamps
my edited revamps
my edited revamped revamps
my surrender----
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my smooth aspirations
my rough executions
my luckiest mistakes
my loving hates
my pinched nerves
my wasted words
my hidden secrets
+>>>> my revealed secrets <<<+
my Identity
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my Serenity
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I'm Comfortable now
Here in my own flesh
my heart is an open book
My Skin Tells My Story
~~by
_________________Bolt⚡
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Comments (26)
I Love the total self-acceptance you write about! Congratulations on your win!
Okay—truly love how you use the limited features on here to play with spaces and spacing!
Nothing short of awesome! Excellent work, and congratulations on your placement in the challenge! Your style is unique and puts the P in poetry.
Original and full to the brim of YOU. What a ride Bill! Congratulations on your placement in the challenge!
Awesome trail of words and clever rhymes. So glad this was recognized, Bill! Congrats! 🤩
Ps forgot to say earlier congratulations 🖌️👌♦️
This was cool! I liked the flow, and the format felt totally fresh and new. Great theme too, can’t help but love it! Your poem kinda reminds me of that Nina Simone song “ain’t got no/ I got life”
back to say-congrats
Wooohooooo congratulations on your win! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Wonderful tattoo 🏆✍️📕
Congratulations 🍾🎊
Congrats on your runner up tattoo line!
That’s a great tattoo line
Quite a list . I am so glad you are comfortable in your own skin. It took me awhile to accept myself too. 😘
Good one. I can tell you put a lot of time into this one. It’s uplifting.
Very clever poetry. Really like this. ❤️
Oh my, you made my day I laughed so much .its cheered me up no end lol Thank you ♦️♦️♦️♦️
A perfect stream of consciousness!!
I love this so much for you and hope others follow
This poem reminds me of embracing our flaws. Both the ones we can see and the one's we can't.
and what a story our skins tell. Great poem, Bill <3
Incredibly powerful poetry here
That is so true, excellent entry
I especially loved what you did with the corrections, punctuation, spelling, and revamps!
"Skin is like paper!" Kevin Michael "Jesus Christ" Allin. (aka "GG")