Open Invitation to Abuse

Scrawled along the deck,

My number,

O seven five O,

Four six three,

O four two O,

Scratched in,

Sprayed on,

Burnt out.

Obscene graffiti,

Hollers from the hull,

Shadows the shed,

Dyes on the desk,
Pissed in the snow,
Obscuring,

Precise,
Prose.

Scrawled along brick,

Stained into carpet,
Carved from the skin,

O seven five O,

Four six three,

O four two O,

A non-deletable,

Of freedom,

Of regret,

A goading dare,

Goading,

Arrogant,

Terrified,

Liberated,
Together.

O seven five O,

Four six three,

O four two O,

Connects real,

With fiction,

But still,

No-one calls,

And still,

No-one calls,

Because if they do,

I might answer.