What we Deserve

From the 15th day of NaPoWrMo and my favorite of the few I did write for the challenge. The Prompt was to pick a stamp from the twitter stamps bot and write a poem based on that.

Amin Amir (1998)

The earth is laughing
at all of us. She's on
the phone and refuses
to reveal the punchline
but we know as the stars
at the end of her platform
it's about as beautiful
as maggots expanding
each pore on a corpse
large enough to trigger
a trypophobe's fight
or flight response, as
loving as a hammer
can be to a hangnail,
and as glowing as gl…