—after the many torn shirts of Captain James T. Kirk
Every
the
opens his
select
around the
His
keeps this a simple
His
remove a
replace his
In this
is a brief
he catches his
less
the
his
Unaltered
where
of
No
around his
between his
across his
The
what happens to the
shredded in
He leaves them on the
of
in the
sometimes somewhere off
No one has to know about these
his smooth
suggests any such
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day,
captain
closet to
clothes for walking
ship.
uniform
task.
hands
shirt to
sleepwear.
exchange, there
moment where
-shirt-
body in
mirror in
quarters.
skin
remnants
battles should be.
scarification
nipples,
ribs,
sternum.
captain does not know
shirts
altercations.
ground
planets,
ship’s sickbay,
camera.
shirts;
chest never
occurrences have passed.
