Unspeakable-- a Poem for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 16

    Getting Worse 

His rash was unspeakable 

In places we never want 

Bad chafe initiated 

His underwear went unworn 

He didn't see his doctor, 

a woman, he was bashful 

Oh dear, it was getting worse, 

every day.  Now it hurts 

Medicine he had was old 

And the rats in the barn 

 had longer tails 

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 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2024 Day Sixteen 

   https://www.napowrimo.net/day-sixteen-11/ 

 - I think I am on prompt today; you can be a judge.  ". . . here’s today’s (optional) prompt, taken from our 2016 archives. Today, we challenge you to write a poem in which you closely describe an object or place, and then end with a much more abstract line that doesn’t seemingly have anything to do with that object or place, but which, of course, really does. The “surprise” ending to this James Wright poem is a good illustration of the effect we’re hoping you’ll achieve. An abstract, philosophical kind of statement closing out a poem that is otherwise intensely focused on physical, sensory details."

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