Kayt Krepcho

I feel your blade
slicing through my heel
and the tendons tear
and I’m falling
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My body, a tool,
a sharp, rigid thing
a soft, flexible thing
digging, pounding, twisting,
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these cheekbones slice my face in half
and these teeth interrupt my smile
as it spreads across the cavernous face that
divides each ear
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You call yourself a realist,
you romantic honey lipped f*ck.
I hate you and your wild
animal hair that crawls
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with no fondness
I think of that foul,
limp thing that hangs
between your legs
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This bed, an altar
where I offer up my body to some unknown
thing that comes to me in the shadows of my dreams.
The curve, the rim of my ribcage
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letters like a silver chain
draping around my soul
and on the pendant
you pen your name
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You Charles Starkweather,
dirty little James Dean of Nebraska,
with your bow legs and hissing speech impediment.
We poked fun at you in the cafeteria between bells.
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Orchid prince,
In the morning on your doorstep
I called your name.
Where are you hiding?
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your kisses on the cusp of my collarbones
magenta rings around your eyelashes
the dewey sponge that wets your lips
a sea of elbows and kneecaps and knotted hair
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i feel the dull throbbing of my intestines
and the salivation in my mouth.
my jaw aches.
i bury my head in my shirt and open my eyes
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I am folded and silver.
I am the fearless weed growing
In the garden of your mind—
Unwanted. You try to pluck me out.
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