On scales of insufferability,
I do tend middling at best.
Moles or growths,
Plus some remains –
Of keratin or cartilage spikes.
Half an eyebrow missing,
From a decade-old folly.
Skin stretched white & purple,
As far as it can;
Without tearing.
In some places it did,
Healed back together.
Suffered so much,
You’d fall apart at the storytelling.
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame.
