You Can't Always Hit One Out Of The Park

For better or worse
we scrape with one finger
between the toes of one foot
one by one
to remove the toe jam

Then we slowly
ever so slowly
do the other foot

When our toes
have been freed
of the crud between them
they suddenly come to life
each wriggling for joy
feeling the smoothness
of the toe next door

That's the better part

The worse part is -
this is a stupid poem

This is my entry to @marianne's daily freewrite challenge. The prompt for today is scrape. It's not my best work, and a year ago I would never have dared publish it, but we are now in 2021. The outrageous seems to be the new normal. Why should freewrites be any different?

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Come join the fun going on in the @freewriters community. You will be amazed at what comes out of your head.

The photo of poison ivy is mine. It's my poison ivy too, for better or worse.