selfish.me()
mascara.smeared(past.midnight.soiree);
wreckage.mode(pints.of.guinness&shame);
abdomen.cable_stitched(hoarfrosted);
damn!_real.ghetto(here);
was.i.too.loud()?
too.sailor_mouthed();
too.sour_patched();
thoughts.knotted.bluetagged();
(stomach && purse) = empty;
hanging.by(tobacco.thread);
exposed_cleavage(of.headless.girl);
frozen; unworthy!
peckish(topped.on_house.white);
faintly.sardonic(desire.to.disappear);
i.move(with.pragmatic.grace);
dismantled && affected;
cursed.mind(unexorcised);
wanting_held(against.me);
all.steady_legs; selfish.me;
still.unpredictable_not.stitched;
altered.gravity && my.own.blouse;
half_undone;
spitting(last.of.me);
spared; //
not.yet.fixed;
heavenly.mother();
do_you.like(me.this_way)?;
melt(my.pulse); // unavailing.prayer.to.self
accept(offering.of.liver_on.tainted.plate);
before(mirror.breaks);
tell.me(what.was.his.name);
wreckage.mode(pints.of.guinness&shame);
abdomen.cable_stitched(hoarfrosted);
damn!_real.ghetto(here);
was.i.too.loud()?
too.sailor_mouthed();
too.sour_patched();
thoughts.knotted.bluetagged();
(stomach && purse) = empty;
hanging.by(tobacco.thread);
exposed_cleavage(of.headless.girl);
frozen; unworthy!
peckish(topped.on_house.white);
faintly.sardonic(desire.to.disappear);
i.move(with.pragmatic.grace);
dismantled && affected;
cursed.mind(unexorcised);
wanting_held(against.me);
all.steady_legs; selfish.me;
still.unpredictable_not.stitched;
altered.gravity && my.own.blouse;
half_undone;
spitting(last.of.me);
spared; //
not.yet.fixed;
heavenly.mother();
do_you.like(me.this_way)?;
melt(my.pulse); // unavailing.prayer.to.self
accept(offering.of.liver_on.tainted.plate);
before(mirror.breaks);
tell.me(what.was.his.name);
[image.credit: The Empty Plate, New York, 1947]



This was great.
So raw and deeply layered.
I feel like I could read it many times and it would evoke a different emotion each time.
Well done.
My first thoughts, I wanted to add this- (Strung. outttttt)- and affected; due to events {as of late}?