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I Like F

I like F.


i like the way it makes my friends shudder after they receive back that paper,

2 amputated arms growing out of a bold line to mark their failure, 

whatever that means.

even unkind D is preferred,

though it's doubtful and dull, 

and comes after C,

a carnivorous vein that bears the mark of cain but still yet not quite as foreboding as 

F


The most cancerous of all,

the vowel fills the deflating leather of a soundless couch in humid weather,


sinking into sour-scented sheepskin that seeps into the sound-shells of your skull before it's spoiled,

when the skin still sticks

to your skull, that is


fff


mimicking the sound of you thus sinking into your seat upon freight, F marks failure,

it says "you are fragile,"


makes you think you are a vase 

the second before it breaks

To be false,

or to eventually fall?


this poem failed

fuck.



©2024 by Azra Keskin. 

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