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);

[image.credit: The Empty Plate, New York, 1947]