Challenge
Challenge of the Week CCXXXIII
Write a short poem about waking up in drunken regret. On this one, winner is decided by likes. Make it brutal. 25 big ones on the line. Go.
in the bag
he's imagining
riding hard
on interstate 80
while she's
hurling lipstick
in a Thank You
We Appreciate
Your Patronage
torn beige sack
with the passenger
window but half
rolled down and
a long slim
rip running up
nude stockings
where they'd
failed
fumbling
roughly
to come to
between uppers
and downers
shaken and mixed
all wrong in the
blood and white
flashing cop'per
flood lights
pissing out
a sound
like a tire
incomparable
to the shrieking
brakes and glass
and her clawing
at his sorry arse
I hate you.
I hate you.
they gasp...
into the bag.
07.31.2023
CotW CCXXXIII Short Brutal Drunken Regret @Prose
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