Alter Ego

Napowrimo #10

"she's a doormat"
            up-end that

slap me down
concrete flat and coarse

like chuck beef
nicely marbled with fact

and it’s this:
I will clean your boots and eat your feet
                                         but hurt
I’ve got fibre
the gristle in your teeth
                  (you don’t complain about the flavour)
                    
beef sinew
through a microscope
is like scorched paddocks

tessellated
Earth’s skin holding it all together

I will do that for our doorstep
crusty mud caught

be proud

Written belatedly in response to the NAPWRIMO prompt from Day 8. “Write in your alter ego’s voice”

The line “chuck beef, nicely marbled with fact” is directly lifted from recipetineats.com – a delightful typo I came across this evening and couldn’t resist using.