Thursday, February 16, 2023

CAVEAT EMPTOR

You don't get older
gradually;

it happens
overnight. Unlike

a good fruit, which 
will sweeten
as it softens,

the delicate, crisp 
silhouette you had bought

might jump, as you
snooze,
from tight

and smooth—
right past rot 

and baggy
ruin, and straight 

to formless 
oblivion.