Blood
Sticky
Warm
Leaking

Amaline
smells of
***** and rot.
Ill-fitting clothes stained
from weeks,
or months,
or years
of neglect.

In weeks
or months
or years,
Gangrene claimed four of her pickle green toes.
Eight ragged teeth hang lazily from
Abscessed gums
Leaking sticky pus;
Her putrid breath heavy with bacteria and decay.

Last week or month
an old rooster
pecked
her eye.
As she slept.
A choice morsel for
the rat waiting in the dark.

It rained that day
Or the next.

No one noticed that morning or night
a week or a month or a year ago,
when she dragged the broken bottle
across her wrists.

Her family stopped caring long ago
And so did she.