Living in the Fold of a Flabby Belly
Turning over exhaustively, skin sticking to, sliding with, stuck against skin.
Dorian bats a hand at his brow, wiping away accumulated grey grease. Pushing his knees away from his chest, against the darkness, light dapples his face. Breathing in the light, he exhales, letting his knees fall back once again, bathing himself in his familiar darkness.
Hours later, woken by suffocation, water runs across Dorianâs spine, drips off his nose and streams into his lungs. Splurting buckets, his choking washes away morning breath and his day has begun ticking.
Sweating, unseen hairs itching, Dorians wonders âIs the fungal smell coming from my decaying brain and shapeless body, or rather this condensed pit of sounds, blank portraits and erupting pimples in the cloud of days stitched togetherâ
âWithout Emotion am I currently just a mass on scales ?â
âIs that a just view to hold?â
âWhat is just?â
âDoes it concern me?â
âThe cold touch of metal plates on my nudity, as I slide down and across to and from one firm plate to another, echoes through my body, yearning to fill its shoes.â
Rousing himself with melancholy, Dorian slides his left hand past the fold of a flabby stomach, lifting it tentatively to see past, before going limp, becoming sandwiched on the stretched pale blue veiny fold