My fingers never smell

BEGIN:
Original Rants


This was one of the first pieces that other people found enjoyable.
I originally wrote it in freshman English (yes, 9th grade).
It's featured at Sick Puppy Press

Mediocrity...

gray and blurred like not quite dry eyes
dissimilar to perfect
yet so close you can smell it --
crisp five dollar bills,
its crinkle in greedy palms before
being whisked away in a wet spring gust
"good enough"
insincere sound while giggling whispers
scorn your sincere efforts
pang drooling tongues like overripe
forgotten fruit
mushy and dull
yet you grab all you can see
you need it; you're an addict
ears thumping, fingers stretching towards...

perfection.

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