It's October. Let's get dark.

Take a bone saw
and cut through my breast bone.
Peel back all the skin and muscle
and crack open my ribs;
Spread them to the side
like wings
And you have me
standing there
trying to give myself to you.
All of me, open and unprotected.

Then painfully close up
my ribs
And sew everything up
with giant Frankenstein stitches
And you have me
achy and broken
with an ugly suture up my front.
Damaged goods.


It's October, Let's Get Dark by Catherine Frances Weiss is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.