Waifer Wafer

Poem #273 • Thin as a child, white as a bone

Waifer wafer
do you have a home?
Thin as a child
white as a bone

You’ve got dancing shoes
a pretty white dress
but you’re white as a ghost
thin as a sheet against pale moon

Waifer wafer
do you have something to eat?
lucidly translucent
are you moving adducent or abducent?

You’ve got flapping arms
small hollow eyes
but there’s a human inside
thin as a sheet against purple haze

Waifer wafer
You’ve got a home
thin as a child
white as a bone

You’ve got a heart
beating enough
to have color of skin
adipose as a human against daybreak

Waifer wafer
Here’s something to eat
a bit more impervious
warm in the mantle of courteous afternoon

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