She scrapes bare
the ugly artists, exposing
tunnels of velvet veins.
Stripping meaning from
whimsical things
to breathe new scars
and give disease an acronym.
She is a storybook cracked,
split open like 2pm beers and
orgasmic decadence.
A woman with granite hands
and steel molars,
tightening her barbs
[I am extraordinarily
penniless,
killed in public]
to asphyxiate my poetry.