Just a Scratch
Just a scratch
No need to worry
It’ll heal up in no time
Chill out, dude
Don’t freak out about it
Don’t romanticize it
Don’t dramatize it
It’s a scratch, dude
It’s not some noble battle wound
from a hard-fought war for some
meager plot of Western-European
dirt and a bunch of stone walls
It didn’t come from some tragedy
No lover caressed my face with a
knife, nor did a robber graze me
or anything. Nothing of the sort
I simply
lost a fight
between
myself,
gravity,
and
the sidewalk