Graft from Architectural Digest by Juice Mouth

im impossibly numb
masticate my tongue
swap our lesser parts
the worse for wear
the ones that you dont love
count the notches on my chest
branches under my breasts
ill be the abacus
the scale for your
pound of flesh
press your fingers in my skull
rub veneer off my walls
mold me out of clay and
used syringes, tylenol

ill pass you the laurel
and we'll wait for it to bloom
i will weave you out of thorns
my ribcage is your loom

remind me of all of the places i missed while retracing your steps
the trenches we dug in your hunches over shoulders
the burrows where birds have been building their nests
the glass bottles lining your windowsill cast green shadows
on the wall of your kitchen and i'm learning to see them in
new states of matter that don't really matter to me, i dont mind

• Alternative
• emo
• midwest emo
• peanut allergy core
• queer
• Baltimore