Keep Out

Junkyard dog,
scruffy and cute, but don't dare touch.
As you come close,
a sharpness pierces the air,
a reverberating pain that contains
the surface of your skin like steel.

Toolbox Full of 26

Going deep is now,
like ill buy a vowel,
and then the whole alphabet,
cause i got a while yet,
to arrange these characters,
into deranged literary skyscapes,
and even less at stake,
Pictures made of R's and T's and P's and C's
until complete rings the bell. Now cease.

And what more of these letters I've bought?
With unknown surprises, the journey is wrought.