Self Expression

An inch-long scar rips
down my wrist, right
where a vein runs across
the main tendon. Not a
failed attempt at suicide
but a bit of the old cat-
scratch fever. I have many
such scars, but this one
wants to tell everyone
a story. I’m just not quite
sure whether the fiction
or the nonfiction would be
more interesting.

1/9/11