Once a new door, now the nub worn,

Profile rebuffed, suffering from posture inadequacy,

Beyond cosmetic changes,

The habitué discouraged with such feral placement,

Today beaten down from more than the system

His effort to fix, none to clean,

His swagger reduced to a cadre of nails strewn on the ground,

Next to his former masterpiece door

Goes to know,

Sometimes it’s a matter of breaking in, wearing out