Betrayed by the Beautiful

Poetry

Jay Sizemore
Loose Words
Published in
2 min readSep 9, 2020

--

Photo by Vincent van Zalinge on Unsplash

1.
Can a beautiful man
with beautiful fists
inflict beautiful blue bruises?
Perhaps there’s a sky inside you
where the ridges of skull and bone
shape cheeks and chin,
begging to be revealed by violence.

--

--

Jay Sizemore
Loose Words

Provocative truth teller, author of APNEA & Ignore the Dead. Cat dad. Dog dad. Husband. Currently working from Portland, Oregon. Learn more at: Jaysizemore.com.