There lived a man
with a deep gash
across his face
The gash was deep and purple
and lined the left side of his nose.
No one knew the story behind the gash.
He was a friendly man in the neighborhood
Who walks his German Shepherd every morning.
He was kind to plants and animals
Children who saw the scarred man would run in fear.
Babies would cry and whimper.
Mothers avoided the man by walking away from him.
One day, a small boy threw a pebble at the scarred man.
It hit him on his head, and sent him falling onto the ground in a “thud”.
Enraged, the scarred man chased the little culprit and pinned him down onto the floor
and slashed the little boy’s face with a blade, the exact same way his scar looks like.
The little boy screamed and kicked but he was pinned down tight.
Once the scarred man let go, the little boy ran back home, crying.
That little boy grew up and became the man with the scarred face.
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The Little Black Book (2010) is a compilation of poems written in cafes in Melbourne, Australia as part of Melbourne’s Emerging Writers Festival.
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